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Grangetown Railway Station originally dated from 1885 (when it was named Eston Grange and served that long lost community) The station has been disused since November 1991. The location is actually about 1km from the current Grangetown so its usage probably dropped to nothing when the industury it served closed.
The sizes of the ramps shows the volume of people who must have passed through it.
This rubbish filled subway leads to a set of steps would have gone towards the South Bank Ironworks
Although most of the station is relatively modern, there are some heavy sandstone blocks alongside the black path which hint at its earlier 1800s incarnation.
An internal railway line to the ironworks runs immediately alongside the station.
Thanks for this. I used Grangetown Station for a number of years when I lived at Saltburn and worked at the Lackenby BOS Plant. The train was the quickest public transport link to this industrial area, with trains (like the 5.15 am from Saltburn) linked to shift times. At one time, I think, there were some houses near to the station at the extreme north of Grangetown, and there was (until the late 1970′s a Bass House still open – the Station Hotel (or No 23 mill as it was called to keep it hush where some workers might have got to on a quiet night).
The station was pretty basic. It would be lovely if someone has a pic of the old Warrenby Halt a bit further down. Known as ‘teacake halt’ for some reason, it was wooden built and gas lit until it was demolished as a result of the railway line re-alignment.
The picture on here any good David?
http://found0bjects.blogspot.com/2010/09/villages-that-disappeared-warrenby.html
Thanks. Chris sent some pics as well. I worked with a guy at Teesside Bridge called Bill Munday who, I recall, was the last resident in Warrenby (apart from whoever lived at the old Warrenby Hotel)
Here was the picture I found :-
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page6.phtml
Speaking of the Warrenby Hotel, it finally bit the dust last month.
http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/2009/02/16/warrenby-hotel-destroyed-by-morrisons-truck/
Warrenby Halt still exists, well at least the platform does. It is now known as Newton Dale Halt and is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
I’ve done a bit of research on this Station and looking at the old maps it was once connected to Grangetown via a road called (oddly enough) Station Road. It used to connect to Bessemer Road at the very bottom of Grangetown, now part of an industrial estate.