The first part of the Whitby and Pickering Railway had extended to Tunnel Inn (Grosmont) and Beck Hole by 1835.

[1] A permanent station opened in 1836 as Beckholes,[2][3] although initially it was not advertised in literature as a destination, merely the point at which horses were detached so that the carriage could be sent up the incline.

[5] The single track engine shed had a water tank, and was located to the immediate north of what were two railway cottages designed by George Townsend Andrews.

[7] A deviation of the line was built in 1865 to avoid the use of a rope-hauled inclined plane; a short section of the replaced line from Grosmont to Beck Hole remained open as the Beck Hole branch.

[8] This was used as a freight-only line delivering coal to the hamlet of Beck Hole, and forwarding out stone from Lease Rigg, and for a time, ironstone from the surrounding quarries and mines.