Gosh! They should never had destroy such a marvelous line! They should relay all the train tracks, and reopen the service. Thank you for sharing. Moira From England.

Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing. Just makes you wish it was still here for us to enjoy. Why did it all have to go?

I used to live in guisborough, now in the states, and the USA has zero infrastructure, so even though England lost loads of it, it still has more than the USA, so be glad what you have, not what you lost. The north east is still home to me, so seeing this is simply great. Thank you for putting this together.

Thankyou for this pure escapism remembering fondly days of steam and graceful travel

Thank you for wonderful memories.

Thank you for sharing this footage of the glorious & wonderful days of steam. Welldone! Beeching had a lot to answer for!

Brilliant slideshow. Never travelled on the line but have walked it many times. Must get back to building my time machine!

Thanks for sharing 👍.

Excellent video with beautiful background music. The golden age of railway travel. Thankfully being brought up in the 1950s and 1960s I can remember these glorious days very well. It was a much more peaceful and slower time but sadly we cannot go back. My only problem was that the title of each shot did not stay on screen long enough therefore I had to either try and pause the video or go back a few frames.

Stunning section near the coast - between tunnels. What a loss!

Bloomin' marvelous! I appreciate the effort gone into creating this montage. My first job interview after leaving school in 1977's Middlesbrough was at Guisborouh Hall as a junior waiter/trainee butler. I didn't get the job but enjoyed being shown around the Hall.

Thanks for this wonderful portrayal of what must regarded by many as deeply romantic railroading in any era. I'm glad I stopped by for this, I've waited for sometime for a glimpse of this as an operational railroad.

I was in the RAF at a place called East Barnby where we were billeted.. We marched to the Radar station of a morning from East Barnby.., Known as RAF Goldsborough.. I used to get off the train at Kettleness and walk to the camp, We worked at the Radar station at Goldsborough.. Happy days ..

Amazing history!!! Amazing!

Wonderful memories. Thank you.

Think how much holiday traffic would travel the coastal route from whitby with unrivalled views of coast think of the success of North Norfolk Railway Mid Wales Railway huge asset for Tourism...

Not into trains at all but i cant beleive this has not comments or likes! good old days! bring them back!

I’m sure my dad was a fireman on this line in the 1950s. He was made redundant when the line shut but managed to get another job on the railway, eventually becoming an inspector.

Great slide show, not really into trains myself, but this is a great glimpse into the past. Shame these stations all closed. I can remember Loftus station before the bridge was taken down. and then later replaced by the new one for the potash trains.

Whilst watching this video at 5:32, with the Ivatt Pig pulling into Sandsend Station, the exact photo of 43074 is the front cover of a book I have based on the 'Lost Railways Of North & East Yorkshire' by Gordon Suggit (amazing book, would Highley recommend) and I was absolutely shocked and stunned on how I fou d the photo, and if anybody wants the book, where I bought it was at the wenslyde railway, or you could look on Google for it

How quickly we forget our past....steam heritage that should have lasted....way beyond the Beaching axe! How can we forget the facts? Guy xxx

Travelled this line very often with my parents during the summer months. Shame it closed down

Every time I drive past Brotton station the only train I see is the freight liner class 66 it’s a shame that the steam trains have gone now

Fantastic video , thanks for putting this on :) do you have any of the line from Pickering to Malton or the Helmsley to Scarborough line in the days of steam please ? :) x

I went on one of the last trains to Whitby from Guisborough 57/58 I think

The view you captioned as Boulby is not Boulby, but the view down to the fan house atop Hunt Cliff from Warsett Hill.

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All decimated by treacherous politicians determined to put everyone in a car. All planned, I do declare. Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA. Keep safe!

never really understood why skinningrove station was so named , as it was no where near - it was really in carlin how !!!

cool to see the old stations but dont the coast ones all look a bit alike spent a lot of time in kettleness station as a scout and they all look like roughly the same building weird

short termism shut this line. short term saving in wages offset by dole payments.

Great old photos. I've subscribed to your channel and would appreciate same. Thank you.

This slideshow is gorgeous, true, but it also really romanticizes and gives people a rosy-eyed view of rail travel both nowadays in back in 'those days' Firstly, railway stations back then were HORRIBLE. Trains were smelly, dirty, and noisy. Stand in the wrong place on the platform and you got covered in soot. Life expectancy for train crews was around 15 years lower than average due to their constant exposure to cancerous filth. Secondly, there were good reasons this line was stopped. No, it wasnt Beeching, the line died many years before his butchering of the railways. It died because it was unprofitable and it was its operators that ended it. There was a better line inland (the Esk Valley line) that was not liable to drop into the sea in the near future, and there was a FAR better way to transport people around coming into service - BUSES - and an even better way getting more popular - personal motor cars. These 2 tie into the third reason below. Thirdly, many people do not realize how much towns have sprawled. Take this line for instance - Whitby, back in 1920 around 98% of the towns population lived within five minutes walk of one of the two railway stations (Whitby Town and the now demolished Whitby West Cliff). Nowadays, less than 5% of the population live with five minutes walk of them (even assuming the WC station still existed). Hence why rail to work, popular back then and even nowadays in specialist rail-to-work hubs, ie the London commuter belt, is completely nonviable nowadays.

I'm afraid not.

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