A shot of the Whitby-Middlesbrough platform at Grosmont Station, change here for Pickering and all intermediate stations. I can’t resolve the locomotive number, except to say that it ends in 77, but it is a local train.
The junction point of two railways, the Whitby-Pickering and the Whitby-Middlesbrough (I expect a comment from Mark Thompson here to give me the proper titles for these railways!) lines. Both lines still traversable by train, the Middlesbrough-Whitby Line having escaped the Beeching axe by virtue of remoteness (it wasn’t economically viable to replace the routes with a bus service) and the Grosmont-Pickering Line by the good fortune of becoming the first Heritage railway, The North Yorkshire Moors Railway. A line I’ve been travelling regularly since they had ”Salmon”. Long may it flourish!
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