Goathland railway station is a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England. It is famous for appearing in the television series Heartbeat and as Hogsmeade station the Hogwarts Express stop at in the Harry Potter films. Holiday accommodation is available in the form of a camping coach.

History

This station (originally known as Goathland Mill) is on the deviation line opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1865 to avoid the cable-worked Beck Hole Incline, which was part of the original 1836 Whitby and Pickering Railway route.

The original Goathland station was located at the head of the incline, where there are still some Y&NM cottages, together with a single W&P one.

The station buildings were to the design of the NER's architect Thomas Prosser and were very similar to those being built concurrently (by the same contractor, Thomas Nelson) on the Castleton to Grosmont line. The collection of buildings is very little altered since they were built - the last recorded change (apart from NYMR restoration) being in 1908.

Trivia

- Goathland railway station was also used in the Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

External links

• Train times and information from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
• Listed Buildings at Goathland Station
• Goathland Station House
• The Lime and Coal Cells
• The Goods Shed
• The (water) Tank House
• The NER Cast-Iron Footbridge
• The down platform Water Crane

• Listed Railway Structures near Goathland
• Ash Tree Cottage (W&P building c 1836, at the top of Beckhole Incline)
• Moorgates Cattle Arch (Y&NM, on the original route, c 1845)
• Moorgates Cottages (Y&NM, to the design of G.T.Andrews, c 1845)
• Bridge No.31 'Water Arc', c 1860.
• Bridge No.32, c 1860.

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