It had five waiting rooms, (a 1st and 2nd class waiting room each for Gentlemen and Ladies, and a fifth for everyone else) and its design and style of roof slate deviated slightly from normal North Eastern Railway plans as demanded by Lord Feversham, whose country seat was at Duncombe Park.

[11] Previous to the extension towards Kirbmoorside, Helmsley was the terminus, and had a wooden shed to store the locomotive overnight, which would work the last and first services of the day.

[15] The Railway Clearing House handbook of stations lists Helmsley as being able to handle a variety of goods traffic including parcels, livestock, furniture vans, horse boxes and horse-drawn carriages.

[21] Passenger trains in 1896 numbered five departures towards Pickering, and the same amount southwards to Gilling, usually continuing on to York.

[23] This pattern continued up until 1938, though there was an unadvertised early morning and afternoon service between Helmsley and Pickering for schoolchildren.