Friends of Hunmanby Railway Station

A voluntary group working with the railway industry to promote and enhance Hunmanby Railway Station. Over the last 16 years the station has been transformed with 4 flower beds totalling over 350 foot, making the railway station at gateway to the rural village, betwixt Wolds and Coast. In 2020 the station won a 1st prize in the National Community Rail Awards. During the Covid-19 pandemic 2 projects were completed, restoration of the old Victorian wooden railway bench and a full size (over 6 foot square) North Eastern Railway Tile Map.

 

 

Photo above, cutting the ribbon by Edna Bates, in August 2021. Edna was still volunteering in St Catherine's Hospice Shop  in Hunmanby Village in her 100th year.

 

In the winter of 2005/2006 Hunmanby in Bloom started work with support from the rail industry to improve the environment for passengers using the village station. 

Hunmanby Railway Station has been developed by volunteers over the last 16 years. Project have been supported by local traders, the rail industry, local councillors and officers, the probation service (Community Payback) and our local Member of Parliament.

Over the years the station has been transformed, most of the planting at the station is sustainable and locally grown. Though some annual planting is used for the summer 'wow factor' for the tubs and hanging baskets. 

The photo above is how the station looked in February 2020, the entrance to the Scarborough platform. Contrast this to the photographs on the

old photographs of Hunmanby Railway Station page.

 

Friends of Hunmanby Railway Station have a facebook page and would welcome your comments, photographs of the station both today and in times past.  Please post to the

 Friends of Hunmanby Railway Station facebook page  

 

 

Where are the local defibrillators?

 

The local community has funded 4 defibrillators, these are located at

 

Stonegate attached to the front of the Community Centre

 

Sands Lane attached to the front of Hunmanby Playing Fields Association Club House

 

Church Hill (Village Centre) on the front wall of the White Swan Public House

 

Hunmanby Hall at the entrance to the Quadrangle

 

At Hunmanby Gap there is a defibrillator in the former telephone box. Further details about how this was funded 

 

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service produce a map showing locations throughout Yorkshire of defibrillators in the community

 

This link to the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and their You Tube video 'everything you need to know about life-saving defibrillators' 

 

 

Updated Thursday 22nd June 2023