[1] The extra services which now terminated or started at Malton necessitated somewhere to stable engines, and so a shed was authorised in August 1853 at a cost of £435 (equivalent to £55,602 in 2023).

[7] The coal stage and turntable (installed in 1870) were located at the east end of the shed, with the two being dead-end roads with a west facing connection.

[6][8] Engine requirements in the early 1920s were just four, each with different trips to Driffield, Gilling and Whitby, however, by the 1930s the Gilling line was closed to local passenger trains, and in the 1950s the Driffield line closed too, but some freight on each branch meant that Malton shed retained an allocation of locomotives.

[10] Long-distance passenger trains still used the Gilling Line, and these needed assistance to run around at Malton and reverse direction.

Trains from Scarborough to Newcastle (or Glasgow) and vice-versa did not have direct access to all lines without the need for some shunting.