Heck | |
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General information | |
Location | Heck, North Yorkshire England |
Coordinates | 53°40′58″N 1°05′58″W / 53.6828°N 1.0994°W |
Grid reference | SE595210 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | North Eastern Railway |
Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
Post-grouping | LNER |
Key dates | |
2 January 1871 | Opened |
15 September 1958 | Closed to passengers |
1963 | Closed to goods |
Heck railway station served the parish of Heck, North Yorkshire, England from 1871 to 1963 on the East Coast Main Line.
The station opened on 2 January 1871 by the North Eastern Railway. It closed to passengers on 15 September 1958[1] and to goods on 29 April 1963. Sidings still served local companies producing building materials.[2]
The opening of RAF Snaith in 1941, increased the passenger traffic to and from the station. No. 51 Squadron RAF arrived at the station in a special train, where the carriages where shunted into the sidings for unloading. One of the carriages ran back onto the main line and caused a blockage.[3]
On 28 February 2001, a car with a trailer missed the motorway bridge south of the station site and ran on the railway tracks, causing the crash of a southbound intercity train and a northbound freight train which left ten people dead.[4]