Hull and Hornsea Railway

The Hull and Hornsea Railway was a railway line in the northern English county of East Riding of Yorkshire. She joined Kingston upon Hull with the seaside resort of Hornsea on the North Sea coast and was in operation from 1864 to 1964.

History

In 1847, the York and North Midland Railway proposed the construction of a railway line to Hornsea, which should branch off near the village Arram north of Beverley of the Yorkshire Coast Line. However, the project due to the resignation of the Y & NMR chairman George Hudson was not realized.

On October 8, 1862 was finally the construction of a second, directly extending from Hull to Hornsea variant for which the resident in Hull timber merchant Joseph Armytage Wade had used. Originally, the track on the east side of the former Cleveland Street (now Stone Ferry Road ) should begin and have the Hornsea Bridge Station as an endpoint. However, it was extended up as part of a plan amendment directly to the coast. Due to the marshy soil along the end portion of the building was very expensive, resulting in a cost increase of initially £ 68,000 to £ 122,000 for the result.

The line was officially opened on March 28, 1864 at 12 noon with the clock of the first train from the Wilmington train station exit. When the be operated railway company ran into financial difficulties, they eventually merged on 16 July 1866, the North Eastern Railway. In the period following the railway line came into the possession of the London and North Eastern Railway and was subsequently acquired by British Rail.

1964 was the route the savings plans Richard Beechings victim, so that the last passenger train on 19 October of the same year wrong on it. Freight transport were last conducted on May 3, 1965 to the station Hornsea Bridge.

Along the old railway line exists with the Hornsea Rail Trail is now a cycle path.