Husthwaite Gate railway station is a disused railway station was built to serve the nearby village of Husthwaite.
When the Thirsk and Malton railway was completed in 1853, there was no station near Husthwaite. However, a single platform on the north side of the single line was built by 1856, east of the crossing with the minor road from Husthwaite to Carlton Husthwaite, known as Elphin Bridge Lane. A stationmaster's house, incorporating the ticket office, was built on the opposite side of the crossing.
In 1856, a single train plied the route between Pilmoor railway station and Malton railway station three times a day. This had risen to four trains a day by 1895. In 1906, services on the line amounted to six trains each way, five of which went south to York railway station and one which ran north to Pilmoor and offered a connecting service via the Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough railway to Harrogate.
The station was closed to passengers in January 1953, but the line was still used by long-distance passenger traffic and excursions. It remained as a goods station but became an unstaffed delivery siding from October 1963. The station was closed in August 1964, having latterly been serviced with trains only from the east. An accident in March 1963 on the East Coast Main Line damaged Sessay Wood Junction and it was never repaired. The line was closed in 1964, and the track pulled up in the following year.
A brick course of the platform remains. The stationmaster's house is a private dwelling and business.
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