[5] With five sidings, cattle dock, coal yard, goods shed, and weighbridge, it was the largest intermediate station on the line.

[6][7][8] Incoming freight largely consisted of coal, with Robin Hood's Bay being the second busiest on the line with that commodity after Cloughton station.

[9] Outward freight consisted of seafood and gravel; 151 tonnes (166 tons) was recorded as having left the station in 1913.

[11] By 1928, when the LNER were in charge, the station had a platelayers trolley fitted with life-saving apparatus in case of an accident at sea near the coast.

Some services reversed at West Cliff and descended the branch into Whitby Town, which was a further 1 mile 63 chains (2.9 km).

[23][24] By the spring timetable of 1939, the basic pattern was still five trains per day, with an extra seven by the end of June for the start of the summer season.