Date: 29/05/2018

ONE of the most remote rural railways in the country once dubbed 'a pretty line with an awful train service' is steaming ahead with a 50 per cent increase in passengers and more stations restored. Volunteers helped form the Esk Valley Community Partnership nearly 13 years ago to promote and preserve the public line which runs from Middlesbrough to Whitby through large parts of the North York Moors National Park. Operating alongside the North Yorkshire Moors heritage railway, the Esk Valley line, part of Northern Rail, now carries more than half a million passengers a year.

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Dramatic rise in passengers on Esk Valley line

Northern Echo

ONE of the most remote rural railways in the country once dubbed "a pretty line with an awful train service" is steaming ahead with a 50

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