Scarborough railway station

Scarborough
The entrance to the station
General information
Location	Scarborough, North Yorkshire England
Coordinates	54°16′47″N 0°24′20″W / 54.279800°N 0.405500°W / 54.279800; -0.405500
Grid reference	TA039883
Managed by	TransPennine Express
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	SCA
Classification	DfT category C1
History
Opened	1845
Passengers
2018/19	0.958 million
2019/20	0.973 million
2020/21	0.270 million
2021/22	0.841 million
2022/23	0.863 million
Listed Building – Grade II
Feature	Scarborough railway station
Designated	8 June 1973
Reference no.	1243452[1]
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Scarborough, formerly Scarborough Central, is a Grade II listed^[1] railway station serving the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. It lies 42 miles (68 km) east of York and is one of the eastern termini on the North TransPennine route; it is managed by TransPennine Express.^[2] and is also served by Northern Trains. The station is also at the northern end of the Yorkshire Coast line and is reputed to have the longest station seat in the world at 456-foot (139 m).^[3]

From 1907 until 2010, the station approaches were controlled from a 120-lever signal box named Falsgrave; this is sited at the outer end of platform 1 and close to the former excursion station at Scarborough Londesborough Road. In its final years, Falsgrave box controlled a mixture of colour-light and semaphore signals, including a gantry carrying 11 semaphores. The signal box was decommissioned in September 2010 and the gantry was dismantled and removed in October 2010. Its new home is at Grosmont railway station, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The new signalling is a relay-based interlocking with two- and three-aspect LED signals controlled from an extension to the existing panel at nearby Seamer.^[4][5] Simplification of the track layout and major renewals took place at the same time.