 Even so, the demand of transporting the fish the to the station from Flamborough Head, was seen as a bar to good business.The distance between the station and coast was also seen as detrimental to the burgeoning tourist trade and in the 1890s, a branch was proposed by the residents, something which the North Eastern Railway considered, but refused to undertake.The goods yard handled mostly fish (notably of herring in August 1889), corn and coal.