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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 September 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 the holiday camp has been razed to the ground
Tickets from Michael Stewart
For more pictures of Filey Holiday Camp Station see Lincolnshire
& East Yorkshire Transport Review web site
For more about Butlins Holiday camp at Filey with pictures of
the camp then and now see the Remember
Filey Butlins web site
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