Scarborough – Whitby railway line

Scarborough – Whitby
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Saltburn-by-the-Sea stretch Whitby West Cliff Whitby Town Prospect Hill Junction Bog Hall Junction Whitby and Pickering Railway Larpool Viaduct (across the Esk ) Hawsker Robin Hood's Bay Fyling Hall Ravenscar tunnel Ravenscar Staintondale Hayburn Wyke Cloughton Scalby Scalby Viaduct (across the Scalby Beck ) Gbf. Gallows Close Falsgrave tunnel Scarborough Londesborough Road Scarborough Falsgrave Junction Line to York , Line to Kingston upon Hull

The Scarborough – Whitby railway was a railway line running in the English county of North Yorkshire along the North Sea coast from Scarborough to Whitby .

The line was closed in 1965 due to British Rail's savings plans (see Beeching ax ). The track bed was converted into a railroad cycle path , which is now part of Route 1 of the National Cycle Network and the Moor to Sea Cycle Route .

The owners of the nearby North Yorkshire Moors Railway had originally planned to buy the railway line, but this failed due to high costs, so they decided on the other railway line.

On the Yorkshire coast, there is still hope that the line from Scarborough to Whitby can one day reopen as a museum railway parallel to a cycle path.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Route 1 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Moor to Sea Cycle Route

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  South portal of the old Falsgrave tunnel, next to Scarborough train station

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  Bike path near Cloughton