Station Name: WINESTEAD[Source:
Mark Dyson]
Looking
west at Winestead Station building/stationmaster's house in August
1992
With Withernsea showing on its destination blind, a 6-car DMU formed of 3 x 2-car Cravens units slowly passes the disused station at Winestead as its driver prepares to surrender the token for the single track section from Ottringham. The level crossing gates were operated by a wheel within the signal box. Winestead station was located about ¾mile south of the tiny village it served and within one minute of passing the DMU would be arriving a Patrington; the latter station actually being closer to Winestead (station) than to the centre of Patrington and therewith lay the reason for the early closure of Winestead to passengers in 1904 although goods traffic managed to cling on until May 1956. The Cravens DMUs were initially and temporarily allocated to Springhead depot and the first unit, car nos.50359/56114, arrived for crew training on 9 August 1956. The second unit did not arrive until the end of October 1956 and the third of what was to be a total of 31 units in mid November 1956. Public services using the new DMUs commenced on 7 January 1957 and on the Withernsea branch took over certain weekday services, albeit running to steam timings, until full dieselisation could be introduced. During March 1957 the Withernsea branch became, with one exception, fully dieselised and at weekends during summer six or eight car DMUs were necessary to cope with the volume of passengers. The date of this photograph is unknown but given the aforementioned information it was probably taken during the summer of 1957. The watching children, no doubt fascinated by the still new diesel trains, probably lived in either or both of the houses visible; the nearest being the former stationmaster's house and the furthest being, originally at least, a pair of cottages. The churn-like object sitting on the ballast is a water carrier, used to deliver drinking water to stations and other railway buildings, such as crossing keeper's cottages, with no mains water supply - a situation which persisted on rural railways well into the twentieth century and in many cases until lines and stations closed. With the possible exception of the Blue Square coupling codes, seen here one above each buffer, the Cravens units are wearing their original lined green livery. This was a rather dull and uninspiring livery, soon relieved somewhat by the application of so-called 'speed whiskers' and then the advent of yellow warning panels. Today just three of BR's Cravens DMU cars survive in preservation, the class as a whole having given some thirty years rattling, rasping but otherwise fairly trouble-free service. As of 2019, with the exception of the signal box all buildings visible survive but being now partly walled-in are not immediately recognisable as a former railway station. One tell-tale is the rotting remains of a level crossing gate, that seen here nearest the signal box, while west of the station on Ings Lane a set of rails remain visible in the road surface at the site of the former level crossing. Photo from Alan Cawkill collection 1891 1:2,500 OS map. A single goods siding is shown opposite the passenger station. The signal box is not shown on the opposite side of the crossing so it assumed to have been a later adition. A second siding runs into the goods yard on the east side of Winestead Lane. WM indicates a weighbridge.
1910 1:2,500 OS map. The station is now closed to passengbers and is shown as Winestead Siding. A signal box is now shown on tghe west side of the crossing. A private siding serving Enholmes Brick & Tile Works has now been provided.
Winestead
station in May 1975
Copyright photo from Nigel Mundy collection Looking
west at Winestead station building/stationmaster's house in August
1992
Photo by Mark Dyson Looking
west at Winestead station building/stationmaster's house in September
2005
Patrington Road
level crossing in September 2005Photo by Dr. James Fox The remains of one level crossing gate on the opposite side of Winestead Lane in September 2005 Photo by Dr. James Fox Photo by Dr. James Fox Home Page
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