{"id":22070,"date":"2019-03-19T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22070"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:52:41","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-railway-line-long-closed-otterington-station-grade-ii-listed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22070","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the Railway Line\u2019: Long-closed Otterington Station Grade II listed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheRailwayMagazine_190319.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22071\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheRailwayMagazine_190319-272x300.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Railway Magazine has detailed the listing of the long-closed Otterington station on the East Coast Main Line, between Thirsk and Northallerton, which has been Grade II listed.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Railway Magazine writes:<\/p>\n<p>The main station building, signalbox, weighbridge office and associated features are all covered by the listing.\u00a0 The original station, opened on March 31, 1841, was demolished and replaced in 1932\/33 by the London &amp; North Eastern Railway (LNER) when the main lines between York and Darlington were quadrupled as part of a modernisation scheme. At the same time, a new signalbox (to a LNER Type 12 design) was built to control the then state-of-the-art colour light signalling along a four-and-a-half mile stretch of this section of the ECML.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 This was part of LNER\u2019s rivalry with the London Midland Scottish Railway in providing ever faster rail services between London and Scotland. The design of the buildings displays a 1930s streamlined aesthetic that was widely used at the time to promote a sense of modernity and speed. Perhaps in deference to more conservative architectural tastes of this part of rural North Yorkshire, the design was carefully moderated with neo-Georgian detailing. The 1930s modernity of Otterington Railway Station however never changed the fact that this was always a sleepy, little-used wayside railway station.<\/p>\n<p>It closed to passengers in 1958 and to goods traffic in 1964. Its remarkable survival is owed to its passing into sympathetic private ownership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railwaymagazine.co.uk\/otterington-station-listed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the Historic England <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/whats-new\/news\/23-remarkable-places-listed-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article,<\/a>\u00a0<em>23 Remarkable Places Listed in 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Magazine has detailed the listing of the long-closed Otterington station on the East Coast Main Line, between Thirsk and Northallerton, which has been Grade II listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22072,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions\/22072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}