The concrete platforms as constructed by the LNER in 1947 at Filey Holiday Camp station. They are still very much in place over forty years after the station was closed by BR in 1977. It was situated at the end of a short branch line off the Yorkshire Coast Line. It had four long terminus island platforms to cater for the large number of holiday makers arriving and departing from the holiday camp each Saturday during the holiday season. Initially it hosted long locomotive hauled holiday specials with run round loops, but in the latter years, DMUs that simply operated shuttles to and from Hull and Scarborough to drop off and collect the holiday makers from service trains. In the distance lighting posts can still be seen standing, some at quite jaunty angles as their steel reinforcing pieces corrode away and the concrete looses its strength.
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