Seamer railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Seamer
code = SEM


manager = First TransPennine Express
locale = Seamer
borough = Scarborough
start = 1845
platforms = 2
lowusage0405 = 50,318
lowusage0506 = 61,102
lowusage0607 = 69,820
latitude = 54.24020
longitude = -0.41600
gridref = TA032839

Seamer railway station serves Seamer in North Yorkshire, England. It lies at the end of one branch of the North TransPennine route convert|63|km|mi east of York at its junction with the northern end of the Yorkshire Coast Line. The station is currently operated by First TransPennine Express.

It was opened on 7 July 1845 [Body, p.149] by the York and North Midland Railway and became a junction when a branch line to Filey was opened the following year (5 October 1846) . Its island platform configuration was chosen to make it easier for passengers to change between the two routes here rather than continuing into Scarborough to do so. A second branch line from the station (the Forge Valley Line to Pickering) was opened by the NER on 1 May 1882, but this closed to passengers on 5 June 1950 and was lifted soon after.

The station is actually in the village of Crossgates, about one mile from Seamer, but took the name of Seamer as there was already a station with that name elsewhere (in West Yorkshire) .

ervices

From Seamer Monday to Saturdays there are up to two trains per hour eastbound to Scarborough and westbound generally an hourly First TransPennine Express service to York, Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street and a two-hourly service to Bridlington and Hull on the Yorkshire Coast Line.

Sundays there is a two-hourly service to York and beyond and a Summer only two-hourly service to Hull.

Until Northern Rail took over in 2004, Arriva Trains Northern did have services that stopped at Seamer, the current York to Blackpool service used to continue to Scarborough alongside TransPenninexpress services. This service was usually worked by a Metro liveried Class 158 DMU, occasionally a Class 155 DMU. There was also a local service from York to Scarborough usually worked by a Pacer DMU or a Class 156.

Notes

References

*Body, G. (1988), "PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2", Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1

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