{"id":59677,"date":"2010-04-17T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=59677"},"modified":"2024-06-16T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T15:02:35","slug":"skelton-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=59677","title":{"rendered":"Skelton Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3436\" height=\"2442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59676\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4085213032581454;width:807px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1.jpg 3436w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1-422x300.jpg 422w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/000037-a-1-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3436px) 100vw, 3436px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Skelton station as we have never seen it, once again a lovely drawing, the station was South-East along the railway from Hollybush Bridge. David Richardson tells us: &#8220;It opened on 1st July 1902 and was closed to passengers on 10th September 1951; closing completely on 21st January 1964.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The building to the left of the picture was the Station Masters house which still stands. Derick Pearson assisted with: &#8220;North Skelton Station was at Hollybush where Wilkinson Brothers Car Breakers yard is sited.&#8221; Locals can remember some platforms still being there and we believe this is the one depicted in the etching. Stonehouse Brothers had the yard for coaches before Wilkinson Brothers; a little further along the line was Long Acres Pit which is also shown on site.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Joan Webster and thanks to David Richardson and Derick Pearson for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Skelton station as we have never seen it, once again a lovely drawing, the station was South-East along the railway from Hollybush Bridge. David Richardson tells us: &#8220;It opened on 1st July 1902 and was closed to passengers on 10th September 1951; closing completely on 21st January 1964.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The building to the left of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stations","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78818,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59677\/revisions\/78818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}