Whitby, Pickering and Scarborough Railway
These movements, particularly in the days of steam, were time-consuming and disrupted the movement of other trains. This problem was especially acute at Scarborough, where Central station was extremely busy during the summer months. The route itself was steeply graded in both directions 1 in 39 being the steepest and its location along the coast meant that the rails were often slippery due to rain and sea mists.
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This made driving conditions in bad weather extremely difficult and great skill was needed from the engine crews to prevent trains from stalling on the climbs. Services were dieselised at the beginning of the s. This did much to resolve the reversal issues at Whitby and Scarborough but even these new trains were found to struggle with the gradients and services were often disrupted when weather and sea conditions were poor.
Increasing road competition and a consequent drop in passenger usage outside of the peak summer seasons ultimately led to the route being proposed for closure in the Beeching Report along with both of the others serving Whitby. A public outcry followed, but this was not enough to keep the line open and it closed to all traffic from 8 March The track was subsequently lifted in , although speculation about a potential potash mine near Hawsker meant that the track from there to Whitby remained in place until The line is now used as a bridleway for cycles, pedestrians and horses, known as the "Scarborough to Whitby Rail Trail", or "Scarborough to Whitby Cinder Track".
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Whitby and Pickering Railway
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Languages Deutsch Edit links. The company subsequently ran two return journeys per day except on Sundays. In July , for Ruswarp Fair the company provided a special coach that ran sixteen trips during the day between Whitby and Ruswarp which proved very popular some passengers travelling repeatedly because of the novelty.
The Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) was built to halt the gradual decline of the port of . Scarbro' Railway to connect it with the Whitby & Pickering Railway at Pickering, were included in the Bill for the Scarborough Line, and in January. The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was a railway line from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The line followed a difficult but scenic route.
There is a recorded instance of a ship from the Baltic docking at Whitby and its captain finding orders awaiting him to proceed to Liverpool. Through rail journeys became possible from Whitby to the industrial districts of the West Riding , Hull , Manchester, Liverpool, London and other destinations. Whitby became accessible to day-trippers and holidaymakers. To encourage traffic George Hudson formed a company to develop the West Cliff in Whitby, building roads and hotels before work stopped at Hudson's downfall in With a connected national rail network the Royal Mail used the railways to carry mail.
The first train from York to Whitby each morning was the mail train, a train that continued running for the best part of one hundred and twenty years.
The conversion of the line from horse to steam power took place in stages; the first steam train service between Pickering and Levisham started on 1 September using a single track. By the following year a second track had been laid and was passed for use by Her Majesty's Railway Inspector Captain RE Coddington in a report dated 8 June following an inspection three days earlier. Approval was given for opening the line from the bottom of the Incline to Whitby but allowed the use of only a single engine.
A further report dated 30 June following a second inspection the previous day, found a much improved state of affairs, one track was complete and the second within a day of completion. Captain Coddington summed up that 'I am of opinion that the line may be opened with safety on the 1st Inst according to the wish of the Company'.
Coddington's reports that the horse-drawn coaches continued to run until replaced by steam trains. The wooden sleepers required for rebuilding the line appear to have been imported from the Baltic to Whitby, details of several shiploads of sleepers are held in the National Archives.
At that meeting, the directors informed the shareholders that they had been in communication with Mr. The line itself, it will be seen, does not pay the interest on the purchase money alone, and the enormous outlay in converting it from a Horse to an Engine line is entirely unproductive. Your Committee cannot sufficiently condemn this most improvident bargain, and the unjustified extravagance in the subsequent outlay.
Elsewhere in the reports the Committee of Investigation summarise the costs to date for the Whitby branch:. Estimated expenditure to 30th June In all the major railway companies in Great Britain were nationalised forming British Railways. The line from Rillington Junction to Whitby closed as a result of the Beeching Report along with most of Whitby's railway links. In the NYMR obtained the necessary powers and agreements to operate steam trains over the Network Rail line from Grosmont to Whitby and as far as Battersby, the first UK heritage railway to do so; so steam trains once again run between Whitby and Pickering.
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Whitby Town Council clerk Pam Dobson said the idea to reopen the line had sprung from a long-running campaign which was launched by Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership Selrap to restore the rail line between Skipton and Colne. Retrieved from " https: In July , for Ruswarp Fair the company provided a special coach that ran sixteen trips during the day between Whitby and Ruswarp which proved very popular some passengers travelling repeatedly because of the novelty. The first class coaches were named Premier , Transit and Lady Hilda. Many pamphlets were issued for or against the various proposals; copies of some can be found in the library of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society.
A History of the Whitby and Pickering Railway. Based on an article on written for the Railway Magazine aimed at attracting extra passenger traffic to the Whitby branch during the quieter autumn period of Potter's research papers are held at the National Archive Ref.