History of Richmond station: reminiscences

Mrs Margaret Grady remembers

When you became 18 you had to go to a job of national importance for the War effort. A job came up at Richmond Station. A man came from York to interview me. I started on the 12th February 1945. I first worked in the passenger parcels' office. We were so busy that there were three shifts, early, middle and late... Read Full Story

Miss Peggy Baynes recalls

My father started on the railways as a clerk when twelve and a half years old at Danby where his family were then living. He had been born in Pickering where his father was a blacksmith but he was not interested in that. He was more into figures. Father came to Richmond before the First World War to be a booking clerk at the station. They first lived in Oakleigh Cottages. Read Full Story

Give us a sign if you want to help!

After hanging on a garage wall in Lytham St Annes for around 40 years, ex-Richmond Station employee, Roger Spencer, has returned an old platform sign that he received when the station closed. The photo, taken in the Kings Head just recently, shows Roger handing over 'a special bit of Richmond history' to Trustee, Jim Jack. Read Full Story

Richmond Station in 1943. Richmond early in 1943.

A Personal Recollection by Roger Spencer I started work at Catterick Bridge Station in December 1942 and was moved to At that time Richmond Station was still lit by gas lamps both in the offices and on the platform. I suppose Richmond was modern compared with Catterick Bridge because the office had a tilley lamp and the platform lights were oil lamps with old fashioned glass chimneys. Read Full Story

Richmond passenger station and the army

Catterick Camp was built and occupied by the army during the 1914/18 war and the Catterick Camp railway line and Station were built to provide transport for the units stationed there. During the first world war a large number of special trains were provided on the Catterick Camp railway to convey personnel, their vehicles, horses and stores. Read Full Story

Submariner Gets the Stamp of Approval

Brian Johnson hated school. At the age of 15, he used his dinner money to travel to the nearest Navy recruiting office and joined up. And so began many journeys from his home in Richmond to Naval bases around the country. And those journeys began at Richmond Station. Brian joined up in 1958 when the station still had trains and tracks. One winter night in the early Sixties, Brian arrived to catch the last train.