April 2011
The York Handmade Brick Company, based at Alne, near Easingwold, has supplied 18,000 high-quality bricks, including specially manufactured segmental arches, for the new Visitor and Learning Centres at Pickering Station. The Visitor Centre was built to explain the history behind the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from its beginnings as the Pickering-Whitby line in 1836 to the present day
John Ives, of York-based architects, Potts, Parry, Ives & Young, explained: “The new Visitor Centre is housed within the old Grade II listed pump house and it was crucial that the bricks replicated the size, colour and texture of the old pump house bricks.” Philip Benham, the General Manager of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, commented that the new bricks "fit in perfectly with the station's sense of heritage and history".