Station Name: FILEY HOLIDAY CAMP

[Source: Paul Chilver]
Date opened: 10.5.1947
Location: On the west side of A165 apposite holiday camp
Company on opening: London & North Eastern Railway
Date closed to passengers: 17.7.1977
Date closed completely: 17.7.1977
Company on closing: British Rail (North Eastern Region)
Present state: Demolished
County: Yorkshire
OS Grid Ref: TA115776
Date of visit: November 2004
Notes: Short branch line to serve the Butlins holiday camp from a double facing junction between Hunmanby and Filey. The station had four extremely long terminus island platforms. There were never any buildings on the platforms except a small ticket collectors box near the buffer stops but there was a small single storey concrete building on the very large
concourse (both buildings demolished, foundations clearly visible). Holiday makers were taken from the station into the holiday camp by road 'train' running under the road through a private subway.

When the station opened most holiday makers traveled to the camp by train but as the years went by more and more people came by car until it was uneconomic to keep the station open. The last train ran on Saturday 17th July 1977.

All platforms, concourse, exit steps, fencing and concrete lampposts are still in situ - the lampposts even still have the public address speakers attached. Site now used to store dumped agricultural machinery and old circus lorries.

It is interesting to note that while the station remains largely intact for many years the holiday camp had been razed to the ground. By May 2018 only the east end of the platforms remained in a very dilapated stated but the site has now been completely cleared. The remaining sections of platform were demolished in 2022.


Tickets from Michael Stewart

Click here for a short video about the station.

Click here to see a short video of the remains on the station in May 2018. Drone video by Peter Yeo.

A second drone video in 2022 showed everything had gone.


K1 62005 at Filey Holiday Camp Station on 6th March 1965. Whitby Moors Railtour.
P
hoto by Alan Brown



Filey Holiday Camp Station - Peak 45 002  calls with the circular 0752
Leicester to Leicester on 29 June 1974
P
hoto by Bernard Mills

Filey Holiday Camp Station in the summer of 1977 - the last season before closure
Photo by J. Jennison from the Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review web site

Aerial photograph of Filey Holiday Camp in 1967 - the station is indicated bottom left

Looking north west from the buffers
P
hoto by Paul Chilver

Looking south east
Photo by Paul Chilver

In May 2018 only the north ends of the platforms remained.
Photo by Peter Yeo

The rest of the platform was demolishd in 2022.
Photo by Mickey Moo

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[Source: Paul Chilver]


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