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Dates

01/02/1858North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway
Opened from Stokesley to Ingleby.
23/07/1858Rosedale Branch (North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway)
An Act for the extension of the line to Rosedale. The Ingleby Mining Company's line had been bought by the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway, which itself was to be purchased by the North Eastern Railway shortly afterwards.
31/12/1860Railway Clearing House
By this date, Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock, Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway, Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock, Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway, Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway, Great Western Railway, Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway, Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway, North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway, Rhymney Railway, South Wales Railway, Stamford and Essendine Railway, Taff Vale Railway, Vale of Clywd Railway and Warrington and Stockport Railway join.
29/09/1928Rosedale Branch (North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway)
Line closed.
  /06/1929Rosedale Branch (North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway)
Last locomotive brought down Ingleby Incline.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Picton

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Leeds Northern Railway
The extension of the former Picton station house in now complete, and The Station public house next door no longer has a John Smiths Magnet Ale sign; ...
David Pesterfield 22/04/2019
Heading south towards Northallerton and the ECML, Freightliner 66952 is about to take a coal train over Long Lane level crossing at Picton on 3 ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
No longer immediately recognisable as a former railway station is Picton (closed January 1960), on the Leeds Northern direct route between the ECML at ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
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Trenholme Bar

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On the road from East Rounton to Hutton Rudby, which is part of cycle route 165, the C road enters a sharp rising left curve in which there appears an ...
David Pesterfield 09/04/2019
On the road from East Rounton to Hutton Rudby, which is part of cycle route 165, the C road enters a sharp rising left curve in which there appears an ...
David Pesterfield 09/04/2019
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Potto

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The old station at Potto (closed to passengers in 1954) on the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway seen looking east towards Battersby in October ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
Surviving gatehouse at the entrance from Station Lane into the old coal yard at Potto (on the former line between Picton and Battersby) on 3 October ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
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Sexhow

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Passing thro' Hutton Rudby, heading east on the road from East Rounton and the A19, which is part of cycle route 165, there is a narrow lane running ...
David Pesterfield 09/04/2019
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Stokesley

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Pathway approach to the former station house at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, with the station buildings standing beyond. At the time of the visit the ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
Between Stokesley and Battersby Junction Stations the now lifted line from Picton ran under the B1257 Stokesley to Helmsley road, under the still ...
David Pesterfield 10/01/2018
Between Stokesley and Battersby Junction Stations the now lifted line from Picton ran under the B1257 Stokesley to Helmsley road. This crossed the ...
David Pesterfield 10/01/2018
Impressive conversion. The former station at Stokesley on the North Yorkshire & Cleveland line. The refurbished building is seen here (platform side) ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
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Ingleby

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Battersby

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Nunthorpe East Junction to Battersby Junction (North Eastern Railway)
Ingleby Greenhow Branch (Ingleby Mining Company)
A view west at Battersby from a train at the only platform in use on 13 April 2015. Once upon a time the line continued to Pilton Jct on the ...
John McIntyre 13/04/2015
The Train For sign at Battersby indicated where the bay platform train was headed. On the mainline was a Pacer for Whitby. Semaphore signals, ...
Charlie Niven /09/1988
A railtour from Chester to Whitby calls at Battersby on 13 April 2015. This is not only the end of the token section from Nunthorpe and the start of ...
John McIntyre 13/04/2015
Scene at Battersby, North Yorkshire, looking north east from the buffer stops in April 2008. The junction of the Middlesbrough and Whitby routes is in ...
John Furnevel 03/04/2008
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Kildale

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High noon at Kildale on the Middlesbrough - Whitby line on sunny 3 June 2013. View is east from the footbridge looking towards Grosmont. [Ref query 4 ...
John Furnevel 03/06/2013
Kildale has two bridges over the line just to the west of the station. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
Difficult to believe this was once double track. View looks east at Kildale. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
Scaffolding being removed following work on the renewal of a footbridge at Kildale on the Esk Valley line in October 2008. View is south west towards ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
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Commondale

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Which stations in Britain have no road access? Corrour, yes although it has a private dirt road, Dovey Junction and heres another, with no road at ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
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Castleton Moor

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Modern accommodation and old style building at Castleton Moor. View looks to Whitby. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
The 1861 station at Castleton Moor, North Yorkshire, on 3 June 2013. View is east along the Esk Valley line towards Grosmont and Whitby. ...
John Furnevel 03/06/2013
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Danby

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The Esk Valley line to Whitby crosses the River Esk and the local road to Lealholm in rapid succession shortly after leaving Danby Station heading ...
David Pesterfield 18/06/2017
The Esk Valley line to Whitby crosses the River Esk and the local road to Lealholm in rapid succession a short distance after leaving Danby Station ...
David Pesterfield 18/06/2017
Waiting shelter at Danby. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
Looking to Whitby at Danby. This station has a fine wooden shelter on the other side of the station building see image 18800. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
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Lealholm

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Track renewal took place over much of the section of line between Danby and Lealholm on the Whitby branch during late September 2020. The section ...
David Pesterfield 22/09/2020
Track renewal took place between Danby and Lealholm stations on the Whitby branch during late September 2020. Colas 70803, with 70811 at the rear, is ...
David Pesterfield 22/09/2020
Track renewal took place over much of the section between Danby and Lealholm stations on the single line to Whitby during late September 2020. After ...
David Pesterfield 22/09/2020
A Whitby - Middlesbrough service draws to a stop at Lealholm in March 2008. View looks west. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
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Glaisdale

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Inside the old shelter on the eastbound platform at Glaisdale. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
Three men and a trolley. PW team heading north west from Glaisdale along the Esk Valley line in the direction of Battersby in July 2012. ...
John Furnevel 11/07/2012
The closed and shuttered signal box on the westbound platform at Glaisdale in July 2012. View east towards Whitby. ...
John Furnevel 11/07/2012
A railtour to Whitby waits at Glaisdale on 13 April 2015 for the Northern Rail service to Middlesbrough to arrive on the single line section from ...
John McIntyre 13/04/2015
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Egton

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Its 13.40 at Egton, and the next train is at 15.16. Do you: (1) Visit the pleasant-looking pub over your right shoulder; or (2) Listen to steam trains ...
Ken Strachan 05/08/2023
Egton looking to Battersby Junction ...
Ewan Crawford 03/04/2008
Platform scene at Egton on the Esk Valley line in July 2012. View is west in the general direction of Middlesbrough. ...
John Furnevel 11/07/2012
Former coal drops on the south side of the Esk Valley line to Whitby, near Egton Station which is actually located at Egton Bridge some 1.5Km from ...
David Pesterfield 30/11/2014
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Grosmont

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Black 5 (4)4767 George Stephenson about to depart Grosmont for Pickering in 1980. This engine was one of George Ivatt's experimental modified Black 5s ...
Gordon Steel 06/09/1980
Maunsell S15 4-6-0 841 'Greene King' waits to leave Grosmont for Pickering in 1980. Emerging from the tunnel is Lambton Tank 0-6-2T No 29. ...
Gordon Steel 06/09/1980
Inside the NYMR's Grosmont shed on 1 April 2008. Amongst the locomotives undergoing maintenance and refurbishment is ex-BR Sulzer no D5032. For the ...
John Furnevel 01/04/2008
The 13.30hrs for Pickering gets away from Grosmont behind Standard Class 4MT Mogul 76079 on 19th September 2016.
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Colin Miller 19/09/2016
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