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Thirsk railway station is on the East Coast Main Line and serves the town of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. It is 210 miles 56 chains (339.1 km) down the line from London King's Cross and is situated between York to the south and Northallerton to the north. Its three-letter station code is THI.

Thirsk
View north from the footbridge, showing the lack of platforms for the two centre tracks
General information
LocationThirsk, District of Hambleton
England
Coordinates54.228240°N 1.372620°W / 54.228240; -1.372620
Grid referenceSE409816
Owned byNetwork Rail
Managed byTransPennine Express
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeTHI
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Original companyGreat North of England Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
31 March 1841Opened as Newcastle Junction
?Renamed Thirsk
Passengers
2016/17 0.224 million
2017/18 0.235 million
2018/19 0.230 million
2019/20 0.222 million
2020/21 47,994
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is about 1.5 miles (2 km) outside of Thirsk town centre and is actually on the edge of the village of Carlton Miniott.

There are four tracks, but only the outer two have platforms; the platform faces serving the innermost pair of tracks were removed in the 1970s in preparation for higher-speed main line running using InterCity 125 trains.[1] The station is operated by TransPennine Express. Other train services are provided by the open-access operator Grand Central.


History


The railway line between York and Darlington was built by the Great North of England Railway, most of which was authorised in 1837; the line was formally opened on 30 March 1841.[2] The station at Thirsk, which opened to the public on 31 March 1841, was originally named Newcastle Junction.[3]

In 1933 Britain's first route-setting power signal box using a switch panel rather than a lever frame opened at Thirsk, to the specification of the LNER's signalling engineers A.F. Bound and A. E. Tattersall, forming the template for many such future installations on the nation's railway network.[1] Larger schemes to a similar design followed at other locations on the former North Eastern Railway network, such as Hull Paragon (1938), Northallerton (1939) and York (1951 - the resignalling project was interrupted by the Second World War and not completed until after nationalisation). Thirsk signal box itself, after various alterations over the course of its life, eventually closed around 1989 under the York IECC signalling scheme.[4]

In 2020, the government awarded £1 million from its Access for All fund to improve the accessibility at the railway station. There are now plans to install lifts and a new footbridge to enable step-free access to all platforms.[5]


Facilities


The station has a staffed ticket office (on the southbound platform), which is open through the week (06:45-19:30 Mondays to Saturdays, 08:45-17:30 Sundays) and there is also self-service ticket machine available (this can be used for collecting pre-paid tickets as well as for purchasing when the ticket office is closed). There is a waiting shelter on the northbound platform and customer help points and digital CIS displays on both sides. Step-free access to both platforms is via a barrow crossing and only possible when the station is staffed.[6]


Services


There is generally an hourly service northbound to Redcar Central via Middlesbrough and southbound to York, Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester Airport. One late evening northbound TransPennine service to Newcastle also stops at Thirsk. Grand Central Railway operates five fast services a day to London King's Cross, stopping only at York, with northbound services to Sunderland.

Sundays see an hourly service towards Redcar and to York/Manchester Airport and three Grand Central trains to and from London which continue northbound to Hartlepool and Sunderland.[7]


Events



See also



References


  1. Appleby, K. (1993). Rail Super Centres: York. Ian Allan.
  2. Allen, Cecil J. (1974) [1964]. The North Eastern Railway. Shepperton: Ian Allan. pp. 67–69. ISBN 0-7110-0495-1.
  3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 168, 228. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  4. "York IECC Control Area". TRE. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  5. Donald, Kiva (25 August 2021). "Network Rail: Thirsk station edges closer towards being step-free". Rail Technology Magazine. Retrieved 3 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Thirsk station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 7 February 2017
  7. GB eNRT December 2019 Edition, Tables 26 and 39


Preceding station National Rail Following station
York   TransPennine Express
North TransPennine
  Northallerton
  Grand Central
London to Sunderland
 
  Historical railways  
Sessay
Line open, station closed
  North Eastern Railway
East Coast Main Line
  Otterington
Line open, station closed



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