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Whitby And Pickering Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Levisham station before preservation in 1965.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1965]](/images/0/965.jpg "Levisham")
![Levisham station before preservation in 1965.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1965]](/images/0/966.jpg "Levisham")
![Goathland station in 1967.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1967]](/images/0/967.jpg "Goathland")
![Goathland in 1967.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1967]](/images/0/968.jpg "Goathland")
![Pickering in 1967.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1967]](/images/0/969.jpg "Pickering")
![A DMU arrives at platform 1 of the 'pre-rationalisation' Whitby station in 1974.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1974]](/images/33000/33155.jpg "Whitby")
![Looking out from platforms 2 & 3 at Whitby in 1974.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1974]](/images/35000/35464.jpg "Whitby")
![D5500 stands alongside the railbus at Grosmont on the NYMR IN 1978.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1978]](/images/20000/20834.jpg "Grosmont")
![D1048 <I>Western Lady</I> at Grosmont in October 1978.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/10/1978]](/images/41000/41480.jpg "Grosmont")
![Black 5 no 4767 stabled in the NYMR sidings at Grosmont in June 1979.<br><br>[Colin Alexander /06/1979]](/images/41000/41742.jpg "Grosmont")
!['Lambton Tank' no 29 stands alongside Grosmont shed in June 1979.<br><br>[Colin Alexander /06/1979]](/images/41000/41752.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80135 stands in the NYMR's Grosmont shed sidings on 16 April 1980. Note the old railway cottages still in place at this time [see image 19379].<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/04/1980]](/images/36000/36605.jpg "Grosmont")
![Former Lambton Tank No 5 running round its train in Pickering station in the summer of 1980.<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/08/1980]](/images/36000/36559.jpg "Pickering")
![Hymek D7029 stands at Grosmont in August 1981. <br><br>[Colin Alexander /08/1981]](/images/18000/18339.jpg "Grosmont")
![Hymek D7029 in the headshunt alongside the Esk Valley line at Grosmont in August 1981.<br><br>[Colin Alexander /08/1981]](/images/39000/39919.jpg "Grosmont")
![Deltic 55002 <I>The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> brings a <I>Merrymaker</I> excursion from Newcastle into Whitby on 2 August 1981. A DMU on an Esk Valley service stands at the other platform. <br><br>[Colin Alexander 02/08/1981]](/images/18000/18799.jpg "Whitby")
![Deltic 55002 <I>The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> en route to Whitby with a <I>Merrymaker</I> excursion from Newcastle in August 1981. The Deltic is passing Hymek D7029 standing just south of Grosmont station as it brings the special off the Middlesbrough line at Grosmont Junction. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander 02/08/1981]](/images/22000/22256.jpg "Grosmont")
![A preserved class 35 <I>Hymek</I> at the south end of Grosmont tunnel alongside one of the shed buildings in February 1982. The old railway cottages have since been demolished.<br><br>[John McIntyre /02/1982]](/images/22000/22025.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Sulzer Type 2 no. D5032 arrives with a train at Grosmont on the NYMR in February 1982.<br><br>[John McIntyre /02/1982]](/images/39000/39142.jpg "Grosmont")
![The first 2 locomotives obtained by the Deltic Preservation Society, 55009 <I>Alycidon</I> and 55019 <I>Royal Highland Fusilier</I>, make their preservation debuts at Grosmont on 21 August 1982. <br><br>[Colin Alexander 21/08/1982]](/images/18000/18914.jpg "Grosmont")
![55009 <I>Alycidon</I> stands at Grosmont station on 21 August 1982. After handover to the Deltic Preservation Society at Doncaster Works the previous day [see image 19760] the Deltic is about to haul the first train of its preservation career.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 21/08/1982]](/images/40000/40708.jpg "Grosmont")
![J72 0-6-0T <I>Joem</I> and Austerity 0-6-0ST <I>Antwerp</I> burst out of the south portal of Grosmont tunnel on the NYMR in May 1983.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander /05/1983]](/images/22000/22809.jpg "Grosmont")
!['Warship' diesel hydraulic no D821 <I>Greyhound</I> photographed at Grosmont in 1984.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1984]](/images/39000/39678.jpg "Grosmont")
![Deltics D9019 <i>Royal Highland Fusilier</i> & 55009 <I>Alicydon</I> stabled in the sidings to the south of Grosmont Shed on 21 August 1984<br><br>[David Pesterfield 21/08/1984]](/images/24000/24195.jpg "Grosmont")
![A lineup in the sidings at Grosmont on 21 August 1984 includes Warship D821 <I>Greyhound</I> and Clayton D8568 (in 'Ribble Cement' livery).<br><br>[David Pesterfield 21/08/1984]](/images/24000/24439.jpg "Grosmont")
![69023 <i>Joem</i> stands alongside Grosmont shed on 21 August 1984. The level crossing at Grosmont station can be seen in the background on the north side of the tunnel.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 21/08/1984]](/images/24000/24459.jpg "Grosmont")
![Hymek D7029 accelerates south from Grosmont tunnel on 21 August 1984 with a train for Pickering, passing 69023, 45428 and 62005 standing on shed.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 21/08/1984]](/images/24000/24890.jpg "Grosmont")
![Bulleid <I>West Country</I> light Pacific no 34010 <I>Sidmouth</I> standing alongside Grosmont shed in 1984, some two years after recue from Woodham's scrapyard. The locomotive was later purchased by Southern Locomotives Ltd and moved to Sellindge in Kent in 1997, where it is awaiting restoration.<br>
<br><br>[David Pesterfield 21/08/1984]](/images/24000/24973.jpg "Grosmont")
![The last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways in 1960, class 9F 2-10-0 92220 <I>Evening Star</I>, pictured leaving Grosmont (and how) in 1986 while operating on the North York Moors Railway. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/19000/19765.jpg "Grosmont")
![D7029 heads a train on the NYMR at Goathland in 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/24000/24891.jpg "Goathland")
![BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 <I>Evening Star</I> with a train on the NYMR at Deviation Junction, south of Grosmont, in July 1986, heading for Goathland.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/23000/23592.jpg "Grosmont")
![The signalman's assistant at Goathland, photographed in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/24000/24588.jpg "Goathland")
![An ex-GWR 56XX blasts into Goathland up the hill fom Grosmont in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/24000/24606.jpg "Goathland")
![<I>Evening Star</I> waits to leave Goathland to run down the hill to Grosmont in July 1986.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/25000/25104.jpg "Goathland")
![Black 5 no 45428 southbound at Goathland in July 1986 with <I>The Moorlander</I>.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/26000/26857.jpg "Goathland")
![Former Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries 0-6-2T no 5 stands at Gromont in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/31000/31898.jpg "Grosmont")
![Black 5 no 45428 runs round at Pickering in July 1986. Compare the scene with today's fenced off pathways on both sides - Health & Safety requirement no doubt. [See image 32377]<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/33000/33191.jpg "Pickering")
![GWR 6619 setting off for Grosmont with a train in July 1986, passing sections of a footbridge stored alongside the line just before the level crossing north of Pickering station.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/34000/34436.jpg "Pickering")
![Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 <I>Evening Star</I> rests at Grosmont MPD in front of the now-demolished cottages in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/35000/35506.jpg "Grosmont")
![GWR 0-6-2T no 6619 on a Grosmont to Pickering train prepares to stop at the request Halt at Newtondale in July 1986.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/35000/35557.jpg "Newtondale Halt")
![<I>Evening Star</I> waits to leave Goathland for Pickering in July 1986.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/35000/35604.jpg "Goathland")
![Class K1 no 2005 running round at Pickering in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/38000/38520.jpg "Pickering")
![Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 <I>Evening Star</I> and (6)2005 on shed at Grosmont in July 1986. <br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/40000/40934.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>Evening Star</I> cautiously descends the 1 in 49 from Goathland to Grosmont in July 1986. <br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/40000/40993.jpg "Goathland")
![Black 5 no 45428 northbound near Goathland Summit in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/41000/41058.jpg "Goathland")
![A 2-car class 143 DMU stands at Whitby in July 1986. The NYMR is considering plans to reinstate the second platform here and install run-round facilities.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/41000/41193.jpg "Whitby")
![Departure from Goathland station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in July 1986. GWR 0-6-2T no 6619 is about to restart a train heading for Grosmont.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/45000/45380.jpg "Goathland")
![BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 <I>Evening Star</I> bound for Pickering passes GWR 0-6-2T 6619 heading for Grosmont at the north end of Levisham station in July 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1986]](/images/46000/46133.jpg "Levisham")
![Hidden amongst the rolling stock in the sidings at the NYMR in 1987 is the unique preserved BR Class J72 0-6-0T 'Joem' owned by the NELPG. Twenty years earlier we used to visit Pickering on holiday. At that time the railway was still closed; the only steam attraction in Pickering was the annual Traction Engine Rally. Fifty years after that the railway has been revived but the traction engines have now moved to Whitby.<br><br>[Charlie Niven //1987]](/images/60000/60550.jpg "Pickering")
![Enter the Star of the show. On a visit to the NYMR is BR's last steam locomotive Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 <I>Evening Star</I>. From construction this loco was intended to be preserved. Thirty years after this shot was taken she is now on static display in a train museum not so far away. <br><br>[Charlie Niven //1987]](/images/60000/60568.jpg "Pickering")
![NER P3 0-6-0 no 2392 (BR J27 no 65894) arrives at Goathland with a shuttle from Grosmont in 1988.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1988]](/images/33000/33594.jpg "Goathland")
![D821 under the NYMR's coaling stage at Grosmont on 26 March 1989, masquerading as a West German class 220.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/03/1989]](/images/50000/50309.jpg "Grosmont")
![Austerity 2-10-0 <I>Dame Vera Lynn</I> climbs into Goathland up the 1 in 49 with a train for Pickering in July 1989.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/07/1989]](/images/20000/20689.jpg "Goathland")
![An odd pairing. Clayton D8568 and Warship D821 <I>Greyhound</I> stand in the headshunt at Grosmont in 1992.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1992]](/images/19000/19747.jpg "Grosmont")
![WD Austerity 2-10-0 3672 <I>Dame Vera Lynn</I> tiptoes down the bank from Goathland to Grosmont in 1992. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1992]](/images/44000/44889.jpg "Goathland")
![Grosmont shed as it was in 1992.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney //1992]](/images/59000/59395.jpg "Grosmont")
![Ex-Southern Railway class S15 no 30841 enters Pickering station in July 1992 with train from Grosmont.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1992]](/images/21000/21509.jpg "Pickering")
![Longmoor Military Railway Austerity 2-10-0 <I>Gordon</I> on shed at Grosmont in July 1992.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1992]](/images/27000/27619.jpg "Grosmont")
![The NYMR station at Pickering as it appeared in July 1992. The station is currently (2011) being changed out of all recognition by the addition of an overall roof.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1992]](/images/33000/33300.jpg "Pickering")
![47704 stands at Bog Hall Sidings, Whitby, in July 1993, with the empty stock of a special.<br><br>[David Pesterfield /07/1993]](/images/23000/23204.jpg "Whitby")
![47704 stands at Bog Hall sidings and foot crossing, Whitby, in July 1993 having brought in a special earlier. The historic Whitby Abbey, founded in 657 AD, looks over the proceedings from its position high on Whitby's East Cliff in the background.<br>
<br><br>[David Pesterfield /07/1993]](/images/23000/23647.jpg "Whitby")
![47704 at Whitby station in July 1993 after working in on a special.<br><br>[David Pesterfield /07/1993]](/images/26000/26033.jpg "Whitby")
![View across a coal yard. Locomotive 47566 and its train, resplendent in BR <I>InterCity</I> livery, stabled alongside the old NER locomotive shed at Whitby in July 1993, having worked in on an excursion. <br><br>[David Pesterfield /07/1993]](/images/26000/26268.jpg "Whitby")
![47566 with an excursion train alongside the former NER <br>
locomotive shed at Whitby (50G) in July 1993. Closed by BR in 1959 the shed is seen here in use as a ship's chandler. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 03/07/1993]](/images/27000/27671.jpg "Whitby")
![90775 stands on the crossing at Grosmont in 1996 with a train for Pickering.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1996]](/images/40000/40574.jpg "Grosmont")
![A4 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> receiving attention from a squad of cleaners at Grosmont shed in 1996.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1996]](/images/40000/40595.jpg "Grosmont")
![WD Austerity 2-10-0 no 90775 runs into Levisham on 7 April 1996 with a train on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/04/1996]](/images/45000/45710.jpg "Levisham")
![LNER Q7 0-8-0 no 901 running into Levisham, NYMR, on 7 April 1996.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/04/1996]](/images/45000/45721.jpg "Levisham")
![Looking back along the surviving platform towards the station concourse at Whitby in October 1998 as a 3-car DMU prepares to depart with a service to Mddlesborough.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1998]](/images/33000/33565.jpg "Whitby")
![A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> arriving with a southbound train at Levisham on 3 August 2002.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2002]](/images/26000/26137.jpg "Levisham")
![Black 5 no 45157 propelling empty stock out of Pickering station in 2003.<br><br>[Colin Miller //2003]](/images/35000/35474.jpg "Pickering")
![BR Sandard 4MT 2-6-0 76079 with a train at Goathland station on the NYMR in April 2004.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 08/04/2004]](/images/46000/46015.jpg "Goathland")
![Twins at Grosmont - May 2004.<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/2004]](/images/26000/26715.jpg "Grosmont")
![30926 <I>Repton</I> leaves Levisham bound for Pickering in May 2004.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/2004]](/images/27000/27977.jpg "Levisham")
![80135 alongside 45212 at Grosmont station in May 2004.<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/2004]](/images/28000/28154.jpg "Grosmont")
![76079 stands at Grosmont in May 2004 with a train for Pickering.<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/2004]](/images/37000/37035.jpg "Grosmont")
![Detail of 80135 at Grosmont in May 2004. <br><br>[Colin Miller /05/2004]](/images/37000/37532.jpg "Grosmont")
![Black 5 masquerading as 45157 'The Glasgow Highlander' at Pickering in September 2004.<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/2004]](/images/39000/39006.jpg "Pickering")
![A nervous instructee drivers first view of the controls of BR Standard class 4MT no 75029 at Grosmont MPD on 6 October 2006. Don't bother looking for the Multi Media Interface or the BOSE sound system! [See image 37539]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 06/10/2006]](/images/37000/37511.jpg "Grosmont")
![The nervous instructee driver waits to join 75029 at Grosmont for his first attempt at the 1 in 48 bank to Goathland - under the watchful eye of an NYMR Inspector. [See image 37511]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 06/10/2006]](/images/37000/37539.jpg "Grosmont")
![The weekend of the Yorkshire flooding. Two days later Sheffield station was closed due to flooding. View looks to Whitby.<br><br>[Brad Payne 03/06/2007]](/images/15000/15793.jpg "Pickering")
![SR Schools class 926 <I>Repton</I> brings a southbound service into Levisham on the NYMR on 23 June. <br><br>[John McIntyre 23/06/2007]](/images/15000/15693.jpg "Levisham")
![Ex-SR <I>Schools</I> class 4-4-0 no 30926 <I>Repton</I> drifts into Goathland in July 2007 with a train for Whitby. <br><br>[Bruce McCartney 09/07/2007]](/images/27000/27115.jpg "Goathland")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> waits at the platform at Goathland on the NYMR in the summer of 2007, ready to leave with a train for Pickering.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 09/07/2007]](/images/35000/35302.jpg "Goathland")
![Deltic 55019 <I>Royal Highland Fusilier</I> photographed at Grosmont in July 2007.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 12/07/2007]](/images/27000/27066.jpg "Grosmont")
![Schools class 30926 <I>Repton</I> brings a rake of LNER coaches south over the level crossing into Levisham on the NYMR on 31 July. <br><br>[John McIntyre 31/07/2007]](/images/16000/16174.jpg "Levisham")
![Crew of Black 5 45212 await the green flag at Levisham on 31 July. <br><br>[John McIntyre 31/07/2007]](/images/16000/16188.jpg "Levisham")
![BR Standard class 4MT no 80135 heads south with a train on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway between Levisham and Pickering on 2 August 2007.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/08/2007]](/images/16000/16231.jpg "Levisham")
![D6700 with the first NYMR northbound service of the day on 2 August picking up the single-line token (just) at Newbridge SB.<br><br>[John McIntyre 2/08/2007]](/images/16000/16175.jpg "Newbridge Level Crossing")
![61264 southbound at Farwath Crossing on the NYMR on 2 August.<br><br>[John McIntyre 2/08/2007]](/images/16000/16183.jpg "Farwath")
![45212 with a northbound train at Farwath on 2 August.<br><br>[John McIntyre 2/08/2007]](/images/16000/16199.jpg "Farwath")
![Class B1 61264 with a train at Farwath on 2 August. <br><br>[John McIntyre 2/08/2007]](/images/16000/16207.jpg "Farwath")
![Black 5 45212 southbound at Farwath on 2 August.<br><br>[John McIntyre 2/08/2007]](/images/16000/16223.jpg "Farwath")
![Preserved ex-Somerset & Dorset 2-8-0 53809 at Grosmont in September 2007.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2007]](/images/20000/20172.jpg "Grosmont")
![B1 61234 after arrival at Whitby with a NYMR train from Grosmont on 26 September 2007.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2007]](/images/23000/23654.jpg "Whitby")
![A Metro-Cammell DMU shortly after arriving at Pickering on 26 September 2007 with a service from Goathland.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2007]](/images/25000/25478.jpg "Pickering")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> departing over the level crossing at Pickering for Grosmont on 28 March 2008 as part of the NYMR steam weekend extravaganza.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/03/2008]](/images/18000/18556.jpg "Pickering")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> brings a train into Pickering on 28 March 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/03/2008]](/images/18000/18570.jpg "Pickering")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> leaving Levisham on 30 March 2008 with a train on the NYMR.<br><br>[Peter Todd 30/03/2008]](/images/18000/18545.jpg "Levisham")
![4771 <I>Green Arrow</I> with a train near Levisham on the NYMR on 30 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 30/03/2008]](/images/18000/18547.jpg "Levisham")
![Rare photograph looking across Park Street, Pickering on 31 March 2008, showing vacant car parking spaces outside the main station entrance...<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/03/2008]](/images/18000/18565.jpg "Pickering")
![Grosmont at night looking to Pickering.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18536.jpg "Grosmont")
![Whitby station with two platforms and only one track. Nearby a looped siding provides further accommodation.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18760.jpg "Whitby")
![Ruswarp station building viewed from the platform. The station has a charming entry porch (left) and covered waiting area (right).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18768.jpg "Ruswarp")
![Railway bridge at Ruswarp looking to Grosmont viewed from the level crossing. This night shot shows that the line was formerly double track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18770.jpg "Ruswarp")
![Looking to Whitby from above. The looped siding can be seen and the old shed is just round the bend in the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18771.jpg "Whitby")
![Grosmont at night viewed from the junction. Original route to Pickering to the left (now the NYMR) and later route to the right (now the Network Rail route to Middlesbrough).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/18000/18772.jpg "Grosmont")
![Entrance to Pickering station for visitors arriving via the footpath and overbridge from the NYMR car park in April 2008. If current plans come to fruition the station could soon see work underway on a new overall roof here. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2008]](/images/20000/20342.jpg "Pickering")
![Pickering at night looking to Grosmont.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/04/2008]](/images/22000/22128.jpg "Pickering")
![Looking southwest from the footbridge over Grosmont station towards the village in April 2008. On the left are the NYMR platforms with the level crossing in the centre background and the line to Pickering entering the north portal of Grosmont tunnel beyond. At the bottom right of the picture stands the Whitby - Middlesbrough platform with the line turning off to the west towards Battersby. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18577.jpg "Grosmont")
![View north over Grosmont level crossing on 3 April 2008 as B1 61264 runs in from the shed to back onto a NYMR train for Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18586.jpg "Grosmont")
![D6700 brings the empty stock for the first train of the day into Pickering station on 3 April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18605.jpg "Pickering")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> on the level crossing leaving Grosmont southbound on 3 April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18611.jpg "Grosmont")
![GER Class Y14 (LNER Class J15) 65462 gets a push back from the coaling plant at Grosmont shed on 3 April. These locomotives, introduced in 1883, were amongst the most versatile and successful of their day with a total of 289 built. In December of 1891, at the GERs Stratford works, a member of the class was fully assembled and in steam in 9 hours 47 minutes, a world record.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18614.jpg "Grosmont")
![Withdrawn in Sept 1967, the last operational steam loco on BR Eastern Region, K1 62005, receives attention in Grosmont shed on 3 April. This locomotive is no stranger to the Fort William - Mallaig <I>Jacobite</I> specials, when it has been known to carry the nameplate of K4 <I>Lord of the Isles</I> along with a 65J shed plate [see image 5491]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18645.jpg "Grosmont")
![B1 61264 running tender first with a train from Pickering on 3 April passing the coaling plant at Grosmont shed and about to enter the tunnel.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18657.jpg "Grosmont")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> casts a dark cloud over Grosmont station on 3 April waiting for the level crossing gates. Meantime 61264 stands at the head of a train for Pickering boarding at the adjacent platform. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18701.jpg "Grosmont")
![The 1416 Middlesbrough - Whitby service leaves Sleights on 3 April.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18725.jpg "Sleights")
![A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> reverses over the crossing into Grosmont station on 3 April 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18746.jpg "Grosmont")
![A4 60019 <I>Bittern</I> on shed at Grosmont in April 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18889.jpg "Grosmont")
![The SR <I>Schools</I> class locomotives were the most powerful 4-4-0s ever built. Preserved example 30926 <I>Repton</I>, is receiving attention at Grosmont shed on 3 April 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/18000/18979.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Sulzer Type 2 D5032 undergoing refurbishment and restoration work in April 2008 at the NYMR's Grosmont depot.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19316.jpg "Grosmont")
![Running tender first, B1 61264 brings a morning train from Pickering past Grosmont shed on 3 April 2008. Receiving attention on the left is A4 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19546.jpg "Grosmont")
![Platform scene at Pickering on 3 April 2008 looking south, with a train for Grosmont boarding at platform 1 and D6700 having just arrived at platform 2 with empty stock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19591.jpg "Pickering")
![View northeast from the buffer stops at Pickering in April 2008 with D6700 having just arrived with empty stock, while alongside the first train of the day prepares to leave platform 1 for Grosmont. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19625.jpg "Pickering")
![View south from the disused platform at Sleights on the Whitby branch 3 April 2008 showing the attractively renovated former station building.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19645.jpg "Sleights")
![Passengers disembark from the 1416 Middlesbrough - Whitby service at Sleights on 3 April 2008. The remains of Sleights signal box can still be seen beyond the platform on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/19000/19809.jpg "Sleights")
![View south from Grosmont station over the level crossing on 3 April 2008 as BR standard class 4MT 4-6-0 75029 shunts empty stock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20045.jpg "Grosmont")
![The cleaners at Grosmont shed have done a superb job in turning out immaculate looking B1 61264, seen with a southbound train on 3 April 2008. Next - the real challenge - that gentleman's coat! [See image 27223] <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20143.jpg "Grosmont")
![The coaling plant in the shed yard at Grosmont in use on 3 April 2008, with the tender of Class J15 no 65462 being replenished.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20188.jpg "Grosmont")
![A4 Pacific 60019 <I>Bittern</I> receives attention inside Grosmont shed on 3 April 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20235.jpg "Grosmont")
![An afternoon Northern Rail service from Middlesbrough to Whitby runs into Sleights on 3 April 2008. The main station buildings on the retained down platform, including the station masters house, are now part of a substantial private residence, while the former wooden <I>waiting shed</I> and store from the abandoned up platform, having been rescued by the NYMR, now adorn the down side at Grosmont station. The old brick signal box on the left beyond the foot crossing (leading to a footbridge over the River Esk off to the left) is gradually returning to nature.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20365.jpg "Sleights")
![The signal box and crossing at the south end of Grosmont station in April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20561.jpg "Grosmont")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 4771 <I>Green Arrow</I> stands alongside the NYMR shed at Grosmont on 3 April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/20000/20747.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>Just popped out for a smoke...</I> View north into the station from the crossing at Grosmont on 3 April 2008. Gresley A4 Pacific 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> stands alongside Thompson B1 4-6-0 61264.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/21000/21600.jpg "Grosmont")
![View south beyond the buffer stops at Pickering station towards Bridge Street on 3 April 2008. EE Type 3 D6700 has just arrived at platform 2 with 'teak' empty stock. [See image 43356]<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/21000/21628.jpg "Pickering")
![The evocative smell of a steam shed... K1 62005 receives attention inside Grosmont shed on the NYMR on 3 April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/22000/22005.jpg "Grosmont")
![Thompson B1 4-6-0 no 61264 about to enter the north portal of Grosmont tunnel on 3 April 2008 with a train for Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/22000/22024.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>God... I could murder a pint...</I> clocking off the early shift at Grosmont shed in April 2008, with ex-LNER J15 no 65462 standing under the coaling plant.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/22000/22037.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>Union of South Africa</I> about to couple up to a special for Pickering at Grosmont station on 3 April 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/22000/22182.jpg "Grosmont")
![J15 0-6-0 no 65462 stands on road 5 at Grosmont shed in April 2008 [see image 34274]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/34000/34277.jpg "Grosmont")
![The gates of Front Street level crossing at Grosmont looking north towards the station on 3 April 2008. Standing at the platforms on this occasion are A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> awaiting its departure time with a train for Pickering, with EE Type 3 no D6700 stabled just beyond the signal box.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/38000/38618.jpg "Grosmont")
![EE Type 3 no D6700 arrives at Pickering on 3 April 2008 with empty stock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/42000/42559.jpg "Pickering")
![B1 61264 crossing the bridge over the Esk at Grosmont on 3 April 2008 on its way to the NYMR shed. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/52000/52770.jpg "Grosmont")
![The only survivor of the 289 examples of GER class J15 (the most numerous of all GER classes), Stratford built 65462 simmers in the shed yard at Grosmont on 3 April 2008 with A4 Pacific 60019 <I>Bittern</I> standing in the background just inside the shed. [See image 52887]<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/04/2008]](/images/52000/52880.jpg "Grosmont")
![Deltic 55009 <I>Alycidon</I> approaching Levisham with a train under a threatening sky in July 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd /07/2008]](/images/21000/21546.jpg "Levisham")
![High summer and typical tourist weather greets people to this popular resort as a class 156 stands at Whitby in August 2008<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/08/2008]](/images/22000/22301.jpg "Whitby")
![LMS brake van 732170 on North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20821.jpg "Pickering")
![The Sherwood Forester - 4-6-2 No. 45231 on North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20822.jpg "Pickering")
![The Sherwood Forester running round its train at Pickering on North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20824.jpg "Pickering")
![Steam on the North Yorkshire Moors.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20831.jpg "Pickering")
![Express Dairy milk tanker on North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20880.jpg "Whitby and Pickering")
![Southern Railways S15 No. 825 on North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20882.jpg "Whitby and Pickering")
![Water tank and LNER sign on North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but what is <I>Prize Length</I>.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20884.jpg "Whitby and Pickering")
![Southern Railways stock on The North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 11/09/2008]](/images/20000/20886.jpg "Whitby and Pickering")
![The wooden entrance porch at the Whitby and Pickering Railway's 1835 station at Ruswarp. Photographed in October 2008 from the west side of the level crossing over the B1416 road looking towards Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel /10/2008]](/images/21000/21757.jpg "Ruswarp")
![The term <I>'Walkies!'</I> takes on a whole new sense of urgency on the morning of 2 October 2008, as ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 No 825 puts in a sudden and unexpected appearance round the curve east of Sleights foot crossing with a through NYMR service from Whitby to Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/20000/20939.jpg "Sleights")
![Entrance to Whitby terminus from Station Square, 2 October 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/20000/20961.jpg "Whitby")
![The arched portico over the main entrance to Whitby station, seen looking west from the car park on 2 October 2008. Opened in June 1847 as Whitby, the name was changed to Whitby Town in 1883. It reverted to plain Whitby in 1938 but was then changed back once again to Whitby Town in 1951. Since then it has been changed yet again to Whitby, the name by which it is officially known at the present time (Monday, 2.30pm).<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21107.jpg "Whitby")
![The bridge bringing the Whitby branch into Ruswarp, looking west along the River Esk on 2 October 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21169.jpg "Ruswarp")
![Ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 No 825 about to cross the Esk at Ruswarp on 2 October with a through Pickering - Whitby service. The bridge once carried a double track railway as well as a now deckless foot crossing (nearest the camera).<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21184.jpg "Ruswarp")
![Preserved NYMR S15 4-6-0 No 825 starts to pick up slack after passing over Sleights foot crossing with a through service returning from Whitby to Pickering on the morning of 2 October 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21236.jpg "Sleights")
![Once a stately old railway station that doesn't seem quite sure what it wants to be any more... Whitby, looking out from the buffer stops on 2 October 2008. [See image 33155]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21258.jpg "Whitby")
![The rustic station of Ruswarp on the approach to Whitby, photographed on 2 October 2008 looking north towards the village. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21425.jpg "Ruswarp")
![A through NYMR service between Whitby and Pickering runs through Sleights station on 2 October 2008 behind ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 no 825. The train is about to pass below the A169 road bridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21724.jpg "Sleights")
![A slightly exotic-looking Whitby station. View towards the buffer stops in October 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/37000/37060.jpg "Whitby")
![Looking west from the Langborne Road entrance across the car park at Whitby on 2 October 2008. The station (Whitby's second), dates from 1847 and the name has alternated several times between Whitby Town and plain Whitby. The arched portico over the main entrance carries the logo of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, whose staff now handle ticket sales for Northern Rail Esk Valley Line services to Middlesbrough as well as their own trains to Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/37000/37307.jpg "Whitby")
![Platform scene at Ruswarp on 2 October 2008 looking west towards Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/49000/49550.jpg "Ruswarp")
![D7628 takes a northbound train away from the Levisham stop and over the level crossing in April 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel /04/2009]](/images/41000/41993.jpg "Levisham")
![The last of the early morning mist still hangs over the moors as D7628 approaches Levisham with the first train of the day for Grosmont on 20 April 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/23000/23452.jpg "Levisham")
![The twin railway bridges that cross the unclassified road over the North Yorkshire Moors, in the remote countryside between the A169 and the village of Goathland, photographed looking west on 20 April 2009. The nearest of the two bridges carries the current NYMR south from Goathland towards Levisham, while the bridge in the distance is on the original 1836 alignment, much beloved of horse-power and cable haulage, prior to its closure in 1865 in favour of the easier route.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/23000/23461.jpg "Goathland")
![<I>Railwaymen</I>. Scene on the NYMR at Grosmont station on 20 April 2009. Locomotive 76079 is preparing to leave with a train for Pickering. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/23000/23489.jpg "Grosmont")
![D7628 takes a train from Pickering away from the Levisham stop on 20 April 2009 and heads for Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/23000/23639.jpg "Levisham")
![D7628 was built by Beyer Peacock and delivered new to Tinsley diesel depot in August 1965. It was eventually withdrawn by BR from Cricklewood in March 1987 as 25278. The preserved locomotive is seen here receiving attention on Grosmont shed on 20 April 2009, after bringing in the first train of the day from Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/23000/23687.jpg "Grosmont")
![Platform oil lamp with waterslide transfer at Levisham - April 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/25000/25181.jpg "Levisham")
![First train of the day from Pickering, hauled by D7628, waits at the level crossing at Levisham on a fine spring morning in April 2009, before continuing its journey north with a service for Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/27000/27176.jpg "Levisham")
![45212 about to go off Grosmont shed to pick up its train; 20th of April 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/31000/31319.jpg "Grosmont")
![The classic old building on platform 2 at Grosmont station on Monday morning 20 April 2009, with the time on the station clock showing 10.30. The building stands at the entrance from Front Street alongside the level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/33000/33673.jpg "Grosmont")
![Standard class 4MT 2-6-0 no 76079 leaves Grosmont and heads south towards the tunnel with a morning train for Pickering in April 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/42000/42522.jpg "Grosmont")
![NYMR S15 4-6-0 no 825 at Grosmont in April 2009 with a train for Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/45000/45394.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76079 calls at Grosmont on 20 April 2009 with a Whitby - Pickering train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2009]](/images/50000/50060.jpg "Grosmont")
![S15 4-6-0 no 825 has just left Grosmont station after coming off a morning train from Whitby on 24 April and is crossing the bridge over the Esk on its way to Grosmont shed. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/23000/23956.jpg "Grosmont")
![Having taken over from no 825, which brought in the train from Whitby, Standard class 4MT 2-6-0 no 76079 moves off towards Grosmont tunnel with the last service of the morning for Pickering on 24 April 2009. The original 1835 tunnel, now used as a pedestrian link between the station and shed, stands just off picture to the left.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/24000/24065.jpg "Grosmont")
![Information board alongside Stephenson's original 1835 tunnel at Grosmont in April 2009. [See 24122] [Railscot note: Paul Harvey points out that the tunnel under the Queens Park in Edinburgh (on the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway approach to St Leonards station) opened in 1831 and therefore predates the NYMR tunnel.] [See image 17619]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/24000/24121.jpg "Grosmont")
![The original railway tunnel at Grosmont in April 2009, now used as a pedestrian route between the station and shed (far end). [See image 24121]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/24000/24122.jpg "Grosmont Tunnels")
![45407 running around its train in Pickering station on 23 May 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/05/2009]](/images/23000/23854.jpg "Pickering")
![D5061 stands at Levisham Station on 24 May with a morning train for Grosmont.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/05/2009]](/images/23000/23864.jpg "Levisham")
![D6700 approaching Goathland on the NYMR on 24 May.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/05/2009]](/images/23000/23872.jpg "Goathland")
![Ex-S&D 7F 2-8-0 no 53809 in the process of coming off an arrival at Pickering station on 19 July.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 19/07/2009]](/images/24000/24677.jpg "Pickering")
![Admiring 53809 at Pickering, 19 July 2009.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 19/07/2009]](/images/25000/25259.jpg "Pickering")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> arriving at a very wet Levisham station on 1 August with a southbound train... the chime whistle still sends a tingle down the spine.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/08/2009]](/images/24000/24866.jpg "Levisham")
![45212 departing a wet Levisham on 1 August 2009.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/08/2009]](/images/25000/25009.jpg "Levisham")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> propels a support coach from Grosmont station over the level crossing towards the shed on 1 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/09/2009]](/images/35000/35447.jpg "Grosmont")
![Class leader EE Type 3 D6700 stabled in the long headshunt at Grosmont MPD on 27 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/09/2009]](/images/45000/45939.jpg "Grosmont")
![Schools Class 4-4-0 no 30926 <I>Repton</I> being coaled at Grosmont shed on 28 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2009]](/images/28000/28659.jpg "Grosmont")
![76079 at rest in Grosmont station after bringing in a train from Whitby on 28 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2009]](/images/33000/33118.jpg "Grosmont")
![Type 2 no D7628 on a NYMR Pickering-bound train in the Esk Valley shortly after leaving Grosmont on 28 September 2009. The diesel was deputising for an ex-GWR 0-6-2T which had developed a problem earlier. <br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2009]](/images/36000/36774.jpg "Grosmont")
![Standard Class 4 4-6-0 No. 75029 stands cold on shed at Grosmont on 28 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2009]](/images/42000/42315.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Sulzer Type 2 no D5032 in the long siding at Grosmont MPD in September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2009]](/images/46000/46032.jpg "Grosmont")
![Scene at Grosmont on 29 September with the workaday Standard 4 mogul coming on to take a train forward to Whitby, the fancy Knight having brought it in from Pickering.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25930.jpg "Grosmont")
![Dusk on the Moors. View north from a train passing through Levisham on 29 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26177.jpg "Levisham")
![Standard class 4 4-6-0 no 75029 runs into Levisham with a Grosmont - Pickering train on 29 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2009]](/images/27000/27547.jpg "Levisham")
![A Black 5 with cylinder cocks open, starts a train out of Pickering on 29 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2009]](/images/27000/27924.jpg "Pickering")
![A sepia study of 76079 at Whitby in September 2009 waiting to propel a NYMR train out into the run-round loop.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2009]](/images/28000/28406.jpg "Whitby")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> takes a Whitby - Pickering train out of Goathland on 14 October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel /10/2009]](/images/26000/26490.jpg "Goathland")
![<I>Clear the way!</I> No 7 whistles for the level crossing with a Grosmont - Pickering train at Levisham on 1 October 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2009]](/images/26000/26010.jpg "Levisham")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> makes history on 1 October 2009 by travelling to NYMR Grosmont via the Esk valley line. The locomotive arrived running tender first, complete with support coach.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2009]](/images/26000/26285.jpg "Grosmont")
![Raven Q6 0-8-0 no 63395 reverses into the station at Grosmont on 1 October 2009. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2009]](/images/34000/34895.jpg "Grosmont")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> arrives with a train at Pickering on 1 October 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2009]](/images/34000/34919.jpg "Pickering")
![No. 7 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> shuffles out of Pickering station on 1 October 2009 to run round its train... admired by one or two lesser items of motive power.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2009]](/images/45000/45971.jpg "Pickering")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>, during a visit to the NYMR on 2 October 2009, slips on the 1 in 49 climb south from Grosmont with the 12.30 service to Pickering.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 02/10/2009]](/images/25000/25662.jpg "Grosmont")
![S15 no 825 runs into Levisham station from Grosmont on 2 October 2009 hauling the LNER teak coach set.<br><br>[Colin Miller 02/10/2009]](/images/25000/25833.jpg "Levisham")
![<I>Easy does it!</I> 75029 shunting stock at Pickering station on 4 October 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 04/10/2009]](/images/28000/28274.jpg "Pickering")
![A United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0, designed for use in Europe during WWII on heavy freight work. This example. no 2253, is currently out of use at Grosmont shed, where it was photographed on 5 October 2009. A total of 2,120 of these locomotives was built - this one is understood to be for sale. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/10/2009]](/images/26000/26147.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>The enthusiast #2.</I> A passenger awaiting the next NYMR train to Whitby at Pickering on 12 October 2009 appears to be engrossed in a recent purchase from the station bookshop. The WWII posters in the background are part of the preparations for the annual <I>1940s Wartime Weekend</I> held locally. (The book in question is <I>Historic Steam Boiler Explosions</I> by Alan McEwen.) <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2009]](/images/25000/25854.jpg "Pickering")
![D2207 is the duty pilot locomotive at Pickering depot on 12 October 2009.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2009]](/images/26000/26298.jpg "Pickering")
![View south across the turntable at Pickering on 12 October as the driver of depot pilot D2207 takes a break. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2009]](/images/26000/26446.jpg "Pickering")
![Thomas Hill 'Vanguard' 0-4-0DH locomotive No 1 with the depot crane at Pickering on 12 October 2009. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2009]](/images/27000/27039.jpg "Pickering")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> arrives at Goathland on 14 October 2009 with a train from Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2009]](/images/26000/26711.jpg "Goathland")
![View over Goathland station on 14 October 2009. The flags, window tape, old posters, sandbags etc are all part of the preparations for one of the NYMR <I>Wartime Weekends</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2009]](/images/31000/31476.jpg "Goathland")
![<I>'Wartime weekend'</I> preparations underway at Goathland station in October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2009]](/images/31000/31553.jpg "Goathland")
![A gleaming 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> reverses back through Pickering station on 14 October 2009 having just come off an afternoon train from Grosmont. [See image 34769]<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2009]](/images/33000/33445.jpg "Pickering")
![Passengers waiting at Goathland on 14 October 2009 as 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> arrives with an afternoon train from Whitby, ultimate destination Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2009]](/images/42000/42135.jpg "Goathland")
![Preparations for the <I>Wartime Weekend</I> at Pickering, Friday 16 October 2009. The arrival (and departure) of the military planning team.... <br><br>[John Furnevel 16/10/2009]](/images/9000/9288.jpg "Pickering")
![Some of the preparations for what is now the annual <I>1940s Wartime Weekend</I> at Pickering station on 16 October. The NYMR has now become a key part of what has turned into a major annual event, including the running of trains to <I>Le Visham</I>, a German-occupied French village to the north (just for the weekend of course). <br><br>[John Furnevel 16/10/2009]](/images/25000/25839.jpg "Pickering")
![A southbound service enters Goathland station having worked hard on the climb from Grosmont during the North York Moors Railway's 'War Weekend' on 18 October 2009. Windows at the station have had tape applied and many of the people on the platform are wearing 1940s style clothing including military uniforms.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/10/2009]](/images/25000/25958.jpg "Goathland")
![A NAAFI has been set up on platform 2 at Pickering to provide sustenance to the many soldiers and civilians passing through the station during the Wartime Weekend event on 18 October 2009.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/10/2009]](/images/25000/25959.jpg "Pickering")
![Sir Nigel brings a southbound train into Goathland on 18 October 2009. The leading carriages are LNER teak stock which look the part, especially with an A4 on the front even when it is in post Nationalisation Blue.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/10/2009]](/images/26000/26187.jpg "Goathland")
![Southern Railway Schools Class 30926 'Repton' sets off from Whitby with the 1100 hrs service to Pickering on 22 October 2009. This is one of the services operated throughout by the North York Moors Railway but using the national network between Whitby and Grosmont.<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/10/2009]](/images/25000/25969.jpg "Whitby")
![Ex NER Q6 0-8-0 no. 63395 has just arrived at Pickering with the 1730 hrs ex Whitby on 22 October 2009. The engine had taken over at Grosmont from ex SR no 30926 and is preparing to run round and head to the shed at New Bridge for the night. [See image 34488]<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/10/2009]](/images/25000/25974.jpg "Pickering")
![Looking north along platform 2 at Grosmont station on 22 October 2009 as ex BR Standard 4 2-6-0 76079 runs round a train that it has just brought in from Pickering.<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/10/2009]](/images/26000/26240.jpg "Grosmont")
![The 1038 ex-Middlesbrough about to clear the level crossing at Ruswarp on 23 March 2010 prior to making the penultimate stop on its one and a half hour journey to Whitby. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/2010]](/images/28000/28253.jpg "Ruswarp")
![Refurbishment work being carried out on the former 50G Whitby locomotive shed on 23 March 2010. The shed closed in 1959 and has been in use in recent years as a ship's chandler. The view is towards the coast with the line running past on the other side of the low wall. Whitby Abbey stands on the hill in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/2010]](/images/28000/28438.jpg "Whitby")
![Northern 142078 crosses the Esk at Ruswarp on 23 March with the 10.38 Middlesbrough - Whitby service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/2010]](/images/29000/29128.jpg "Ruswarp")
![D2207 is station pilot at Pickering on 24 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/2010]](/images/28000/28303.jpg "Pickering")
![D5061 stands at the buffer stops at the south end of Pickering station on 24 March 2010 having just come off a NYMR train from Grosmont. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/2010]](/images/28000/28594.jpg "Pickering")
![A quiet period at Pickering on 24 March sees the platforms occupied by ex-BR class 04 no D2207 and DSRM no 1 'Ron Rothwell' shunting empty stock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/2010]](/images/29000/29354.jpg "Pickering")
![Preserved class 50 no 50027, <I>Lion</I> in Network SouthEast livery, stands in the sidings on the east side of Grosmont shed on 26 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/28000/28364.jpg "Grosmont")
![Heading for the shed. Having completed a tour of duty on the NYMR on 26 March, no 7639 traverses the level crossing at the south end of Grosmont station and runs onto the bridge over the River Esk on its way back to Grosmont shed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/28000/28402.jpg "Grosmont")
![The <I>Not to be moved</I> sign seems a little unnecessary in this case. Standard class 4 no 75029 'receiving attention' alongside Grosmont shed on 26 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/28000/28429.jpg "Grosmont")
![D5061 crossing the North York Moors on the approach to Goathland on 26 March 2010 at the head of an afternoon Pickering - Grosmont train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/28000/28461.jpg "Goathland")
![D5061 standing in platform 4 at Grosmont station on 26 March 2010 awaiting its next tour of duty, having brought in an earlier train from Pickering. <br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/28000/28695.jpg "Grosmont")
![7639 waits at the north portal of Grosmont tunnel in March 2010. Part of the NYMR's Grosmont locomotive depot is visible at the south end of the tunnel.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/29000/29011.jpg "Grosmont Tunnels")
![Ex-GWR Collett 0-6-2T no 6619 has Grosmont shed to itself on 26 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/29000/29712.jpg "Grosmont")
![Cleaner at work. A quiet spring afternoon at Grosmont shed in March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/29000/29922.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76079 photographed at Grosmont shed on 26 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/03/2010]](/images/38000/38902.jpg "Grosmont")
![D7628 shortly after arrival at Whitby on 18 September with a train from Pickering.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30759.jpg "Whitby")
![20227 stands with a train at Goathland on 18 September 2010.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30770.jpg "Goathland")
![20227 is seen at Goathland on the 18th of September 2010.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30837.jpg "Goathland")
![37264 at Grosmont on the 18th of September 2010.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30838.jpg "Grosmont")
![D2207 stands alongside the turntable at Pickering on 26 September.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/09/2010]](/images/30000/30935.jpg "Pickering")
![PW checks being carried out at the entrance to Pickering station on 26 September 2010 as ex-Somerset & Dorset 2-8-0 no 53809 gets a green with a morning train for Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/09/2010]](/images/31000/31253.jpg "Pickering")
![Ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 No 825 arrives at Pickering on 28 September with a through service from Whitby. Plans are now in place to construct an overall roof here by the middle of next year [See image 34769].<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2010]](/images/30000/30915.jpg "Pickering")
![A glimpse of the annual NYMR wrestling championships, Pickering station, September 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2010]](/images/31000/31404.jpg "Pickering")
![Class S15 4-6-0 no 825, looking half naked without its smoke deflectors, is in the process of running round at Pickering on 28 September 2010, having just brought in an afternoon train from Whitby. Photographed from the fenced off area behind the buffer stops. [See image 33191]<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2010]](/images/32000/32377.jpg "Pickering")
![Class S15 4-6-0 no 825 with its smoke deflectors removed, has just brought a train from Whitby into the platform at Pickering on 28 September 2010. [See image 25833]<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2010]](/images/32000/32908.jpg "Pickering")
![Looking like the last thing in upmarket garden ornaments, ex-Southern Railway S15 4-6-0 No 825 stands at the limit of the headshunt at Pickering in September 2010. View west across Park Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2010]](/images/56000/56134.jpg "Pickering")
![No 7822 'Foxcote Manor', the 'guest' locomotive at the NYMR Autumn Steam Gala, photographed at Grosmont station on 1 October 2011. Unfortunately NYMR's Standard Class 4 4-6-0 no 75029 was not ready in time to make an appearance at this event [see image 28429].<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2010]](/images/35000/35876.jpg "Grosmont")
![Looking back from Endeavour Wharf towards the town of Whitby in October 2011 showing the long disused run round loop. The A171 road bridge and the former locomotive shed are visible in the background.<br><br>[Colin Miller //2011]](/images/36000/36050.jpg "Whitby")
![Fine of line. Sir Nigel Gresley's eponymous 60007 rests between turns at Grosmont on a beautiful Mayday 2011. Surely still an inspiration to all engineers that form and beauty can sit well with function. Think Gresley A4, Supermarine Spitfire, Ferrari, Ducati ... <br><br>[Brian Taylor 01/05/2011]](/images/36000/36731.jpg "Grosmont")
![View north through the recently re-roofed Pickering station on 28 June 2011. D7628 is standing at the far end of platform 1 with an empty train.<br><br>[John Furnevel /06/2011]](/images/35000/35596.jpg "Pickering")
![View north through Pickering station on 26 June 2011 showing the recently constructed overall roof. For the previous arrangement [see image 30915].<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/06/2011]](/images/34000/34769.jpg "Pickering")
![<I>Have a pew...</I> Period piece at the north end of Pickering station - choose a date!<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/06/2011]](/images/34000/34832.jpg "Pickering")
![D7628 comes off a train of empty stock at Pickering on 28 June 2011. Note the station's recently completed overall roof, a replacement for the original 1846 structure removed by BR in the 1950s.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34734.jpg "Pickering")
![<I>'Wonder what The Bishop would have thought?'</I> The driver of ex-LMS 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I> seems to be quite taken with the partial LNER green colour scheme created by the reflection of the summer foliage at Pickering on 28 June 2011. The locomotive is about to take out a morning NYMR service to Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34749.jpg "Pickering")
![Black 5 no 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I> brings the NYMR <I>'Moors Explorer'</I> over New Bridge level crossing on the northern edge of Pickering on 28 June 2011. The train is the 11.00 ex-Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34816.jpg "Pickering")
![D7628 has drawn up with a train of empty stock at the north end of platform 1 at Pickering station on 28 June 2011. View under the new overall roof completed earlier in the year.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/36000/36323.jpg "Pickering")
![Early afternoon at Pickering on a bright and sunny 28 June 2011, with Black 5 no 45428 <I>'Eric Treacy'</I> preparing to remove a train of empty stock from the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/36000/36811.jpg "Pickering")
![Black 5 no 45428 <I>'Eric Treacy'</I> preparing to leave Pickering on 28 June 2011.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/37000/37213.jpg "Pickering")
![45428 with <I>'The Moors Explorer'</I> heading for Pickering on 28 June 2011, photographed on New Bridge level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/06/2011]](/images/38000/38754.jpg "Pickering")
![<I>'...and you!'</I> Exchange at New Bridge level crossing on 29 June 2011. The train is the 10.00 ex-Pickering seen shortly after getting underway behind D7628.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/34000/34928.jpg "Pickering")
![D7628 seen shortly after leaving Pickering station on 30 June with the <I>'Yorkshire Coast Express'</I>, destination Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/34000/34993.jpg "Pickering")
![The new roof at Pickering station seen on 30 June 2011 looking south west from Castle Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/35000/35173.jpg "Pickering")
![<I>Dream on...</I> J72 no 69023 with the <I>'Flying Scotsman'</I> (headboard!) running into Pickering on 30 June.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/35000/35237.jpg "Pickering")
![Veteran J72 0-6-0T no 69023 stands with a train under the overall roof at Pickering station on 30 June 2011. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/36000/36461.jpg "Pickering")
![NYMR 08850 stabled on the turntable road alongside the entrance to the car park at Pickering on 30 June 2011. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/37000/37115.jpg "Pickering")
![08850 stabled on the turntable road at NYMR Pickering in June 2011.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/38000/38917.jpg "Pickering")
![J72 no 69023 at Undercliff level crossing, Pickering, in June 2011. The 0-6-0 tank is at the rear of the <I>Yorkshire Coast Express</I>, bound for Whitby, hauled by D7628 [see image 34993]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/41000/41844.jpg "Pickering")
![The <I>'Yorkshire Coast Express'</I>, bound for Whitby heads north over the level crossing shortly after leaving Pickering station on 30 June 2011. D7628 is at the head of the train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/2011]](/images/45000/45935.jpg "Pickering")
![Scene at New Bridge level crossing on the northern outskirts of Pickering on 1 July 2011 with Black 5 no 45407 <I>'The Lancashire Fusilier'</I> bringing in the 10.30 train from Grosmont. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/07/2011]](/images/35000/35037.jpg "Pickering")
![It's all downhill from here. 45407 <I>'The Lancashire Fusilier'</I> between New Bridge level crossing and the terminus at Pickering on 1 July 2011 with the 10.30 service from Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/07/2011]](/images/37000/37942.jpg "Pickering")
![(30)825 brings the 16.30 from Grosmont into Pickering on 25 September 2011. 825 is in fact an amalgam of 30841 and (30)825. The convention, I think, is that the number on the frames identifies the loco, so this should be the engine part or chassis of 825 and the boiler etc. of 841. There is a derelict engine (chassis) at Grosmont which could be 841.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/2011]](/images/35000/35962.jpg "Pickering")
![Inside looking out - atmospheric shot of ex-LNWR G2 0-8-0 no 49395 at Grosmont shed on 26 September 2011 - and not a fluorescent jacket in sight!<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2011]](/images/36000/36055.jpg "Grosmont")
![30926 Repton languishes at the rear of the shed yard at Grosmont on 26 September, with nameplates removed, awaiting attention.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2011]](/images/36000/36115.jpg "Grosmont")
![LNWR G2 0-8-0 no 49395 at Grosmont shed on 26 September 2011. <br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2011]](/images/37000/37322.jpg "Grosmont")
![Off duty member of staff at Grosmont shed in September 2011. [Alan Hardie adds - The cats name is Erica (after 45428 Eric Treacy) and has its own ID card pinned above its bed in the repair shed. The shed shop staff feed her.]<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/09/2011]](/images/44000/44981.jpg "Grosmont")
![Q6 no 63395 brings the 16.30 from Grosmont into Pickering on 28 September 2011. The driver is in the cab on this occasion [see image 35903].<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/09/2011]](/images/35000/35914.jpg "Pickering")
![With the driver out on the framing, Q6 0-8-0 no 63395 tops the bank near Goathland on 29 September with the 16.30 Grosmont to Pickering train.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2011]](/images/35000/35903.jpg "Goathland")
![825 runs into Goathland on 29 September with a train for Grosmont.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2011]](/images/36000/36234.jpg "Goathland")
![Parallel or tapered? Scene at Grosmont on 29 September 2011 featuring Ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 No 825, minus its smoke deflectors, alongside Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I><br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2011]](/images/36000/36712.jpg "Grosmont")
![Q6 no 63395 on the bank to Goathland on 29 September 2011 with the 13.30 train to Pickering.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/09/2011]](/images/36000/36884.jpg "Goathland")
![BR 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 photographed on 1 October on Levisham level crossing with the 10.30 Grosmont to Pickering. <br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2011]](/images/35000/35985.jpg "Levisham")
![Ex-GWR 4-6-0 no 7822 <I>Foxcote Manor</I> arriving at Levisham with a train from Pickering on 1st October 2011. <br><br>[Colin Miller 01/10/2011]](/images/36000/36069.jpg "Levisham")
![Warm up act. Heavily shrouded ex SR S15 class 4-6-0 no 30825 pre-heats the 13.40 'Santa Special' stock at Pickering on 19 December while awaiting the arrival of Black Five 45428 <i>Eric Treacy</i> on the late running 12.00 ex Grosmont 'Christmas Moorlander Pullman' dining service. No 825 then took out the return Pullman service, after which 45428 reversed out of the station and coupled onto the Santa Special; which it worked to Levisham and return. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/12/2011]](/images/36000/36983.jpg "Pickering")
![Black Five 45428 <i>Eric Treacy</i> rests at Pickering after arrival on the late running 12.00 ex Grosmont 'Christmas Moorlander Pullman' dining service. After the return Pullman service had departed it then reversed out of the station and coupled onto the 13.40 'Santa Special', in the adjacent platform, which it worked to Levisham and return. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/12/2011]](/images/36000/36989.jpg "Pickering")
![North Eastern mineral power. Q6 0-8-0 No. 63395 waits at Grosmont in May 2012, ready to lift it's 7 coach train to Goathland. 90 years old but well capable of the 3 1/2 miles of 1 in 48. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 30/05/2012]](/images/39000/39069.jpg "Grosmont")
![Preserved BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214, now sporting the name <I>'Cock o' the North'</I> about to take a down NYMR train tender first over New Bridge level crossing shortly after leaving Pickering on 11 July 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2012]](/images/39000/39819.jpg "Pickering")
![A DMU arrives empty stock through the rain at Pickering station on 7 July 2012 to form the 14.00 train to Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/2012]](/images/39000/39685.jpg "Pickering")
![A misty morning on the North York Moors to the south of Goathland on 10 July 2012. In the background class S15 4-6-0 no 825 climbs north, running tender first, with a through train for Whitby.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/07/2012]](/images/39000/39674.jpg "Goathland")
![An afternoon DMU service leaves Pickering for Grosmont on 10 July 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/07/2012]](/images/39000/39987.jpg "Pickering")
![Immaculate looking BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 about to run tender first over the level crossing at New Bridge, Pickering, on 11 July 2012 with a train for Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/07/2012]](/images/46000/46269.jpg "Pickering")
![BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 no 75029 <I>'The Green Knight'</I>, built at Swindon Works in 1954 and purchased by artist and steam enthusiast David Shepherd following its withdrawal by BR in 1967. Now owned by the NYMR the locomotive is seen here at Whitby on 1 September 2013, awaiting its departure time with a train for Grosmont. Definitely looking much better than it did for much of 2010... [see image 28429].<br><br>[John Steven 01/09/2012]](/images/40000/40240.jpg "Whitby")
![Awaiting departure from Whitby with a train for Pickering on 1 September is ex-LMS Class 5 4-6-0 no 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I>. Built by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937, the locomotive returned to traffic in 2010 after a full overhaul carried out at Grosmont MPD. Named in 1969 after Eric Treacy, Bishop of Wakefield and renowned railway photographer.<br><br>[John Steven 01/09/2012]](/images/40000/40250.jpg "Whitby")
![<I>'Back a bit... back a bit more...'</I> NYMR train being guided into the platform at Whitby on 1 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 01/09/2012]](/images/40000/40543.jpg "Whitby")
![A 'through the window' footplate shot of 75029 <I>The Green Knight</I>, taken at Whitby on the 3rd September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 03/09/2012]](/images/40000/40479.jpg "Whitby")
![A trio of photographers perched on the overbridge concentrating on BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 <I>Cock O' The North</I> as it drifts into Pickering station on a bright and sunny September afternoon in 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/40000/40491.jpg "Pickering")
![Miscellaneous goods vehicles in the siding at Goathland on 4 September.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/40000/40553.jpg "Goathland")
![BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 no 75029 <I>'The Green Knight'</I> approaching the platform at Goathland on 4 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/40000/40608.jpg "Goathland")
![BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0 no 75029 <I>The Green Knight</I> at Pickering on 4 September, waiting to run round its train in readiness for the return journey to Whitby.<br>
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<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/40000/40757.jpg "Pickering")
![Waiting for the train, Pickering, 4 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/41000/41074.jpg "Pickering")
![An afternoon train from Pickering arriving at Grosmont on 4 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/41000/41098.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>'Smile For The Camera!'</I> The driver of 75029 <I>The Green Knight</I> ready for the off with a Whitby to Pickering service at Levisham on 4 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 04/09/2012]](/images/41000/41551.jpg "Levisham")
![BR Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 <I>Cock O' The North</I>. NYMR's newest steam locomotive both in terms of its building, in 1959, and arrival at the NYMR in 2010. Had a very short career with BR having been built at the same time as many diesel and electric units, rescued from Barry scrap yard and restored at Butterley before going to the NYMR. Photographed on a sunny 5th September afternoon, approaching the platforms at Pickering with a train from Whitby.<br><br>[John Steven 05/09/2012]](/images/40000/40267.jpg "Pickering")
![Northern Rail 57438 and 52438 'Timothy Hackworth' have some time off on Sunday 9 September prior to going back into service on the first train of the day on Monday morning with a Whitby - Middlesbrough Esk Valley Line service.<br><br>[John Steven 09/09/2012]](/images/40000/40359.jpg "Whitby")
![<I>'Right lads, kettle's boiled...' </I> Fireman of 75029 'The Green Knight' at Whitby on 10 September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 10/09/2012]](/images/40000/40383.jpg "Whitby")
![Commemorative plaque on the wall of the Black Swan Inn, Pickering, photographed in September 2012.<br><br>[John Steven 10/09/2012]](/images/40000/40400.jpg "Pickering")
![Gresley N2 0-6-2 tank No. 1744 backs down onto its train at Grosmont on 20 September. It's a long way from Kings Cross and suburban commuter duties!<br><br>[Brian Taylor 20/09/2012]](/images/40000/40480.jpg "Grosmont")
![Gresley N2 0-6-2T No. 1744 prepares to take its train up the bank from Grosmont to Goathland on 20 September. Beautifully painted, lined and numbered, the former Kings Cross based BR 69523 is a long way from the City of London's Moorgate, although the chalked addition of the 'S' has brought it much closer to home in NYMR terms.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 20/09/2012]](/images/40000/40492.jpg "Grosmont")
![Levisham Station Signal Box and Ticket Office seen at dusk on Sunday 16 December 2012. The steam from 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I> adds to the haze by the signal box. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 16/12/2012]](/images/41000/41445.jpg "Levisham")
![After many years of inactivity, the NYMR's Lambton 0-6-2 tank no 29 is seen banking a long diesel hauled service train out of Grosmont and up the bank to Goathland, presumably running-in, on 30th April 2013. Overnight its lining, lettering and numbering would be applied before duty on the May 1st 40 year Anniversary train.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 30/04/2013]](/images/42000/42932.jpg "Grosmont")
![Two former residents of Philadelphia prepare to drop down the bank towards Grosmont on 30th April 2013. The lining and lettering brush awaits No. 29. Both 29 and 'Sir Nigel Gresley' were running in after extensive work. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 30/04/2013]](/images/42000/42992.jpg "Goathland")
![Lambton 0-6-2 Tank, No. 29 pilots K1 2-6-0 No. 62005 into Newtondale on 1 May with the NYMR 40th Anniversary train, 14.00 ex Whitby. The pair had made light work of the 3 miles of 1 in 49 between Grosmont and Goathland. No. 29 was on the official re-opening train, 40 years to the day earlier and has aged much better than the photographer, as archive photos taken of both on Grosmont Station platform on 1st May 1973 prove!<br><br>[Brian Taylor 01/05/2013]](/images/42000/42978.jpg "Newtondale Halt")
![No. 29, resplendent in 12 hour old lining and lettering and No. 62005, immaculate in BR black, held at Levisham with the NYMR 40 year Anniversary Special on 1st May 2013. The combination of 29's Philadelphia chime whistle and 62005's North Eastern <I>shrieker</I>, echoing from the valley sides and across the moors was enough to raise the (few remaining) hairs... and no doubt the ghosts of 40 years NYMR running.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 01/05/2013]](/images/42000/42987.jpg "Levisham")
![The unique ex-GNR teak Invalid Saloon no 3087, built at Doncaster in 1909. The coach was modified in more recent times to incorporate an 'observation end'. The vehicle is seen here on the rear of a NYMR train leaving Pickering for Grosmont in June 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/43000/43356.jpg "Pickering")
![Scene on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 1 June 2013 as A4 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> brings a train over New Bridge level crossing on the approach to Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/43000/43508.jpg "Pickering")
![<I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> runs round the NYMR <I>teak set</I> at Pickering on 1 June 2013. [See image 43356]<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/43000/43644.jpg "Pickering")
![The long wait. The signalman at New Bridge level crossing waits patiently for the 11.30 from Grosmont on 1 June 2013 in order to complete the token exchange. The train had stopped briefly alongside the PW depot for reasons unknown and B1 4-6-0 61002 <I>Impala</I> (aka 61264) is restarting for the final section to Pickering station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/43000/43985.jpg "Pickering")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61002 <I>Impala</I> (aka 61264) picks up after the token exchange at New Bridge level crossing on 1 June with the 11.30 NYMR service from Grosmont to Pickering.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/44000/44049.jpg "Pickering")
![LNER coach no 43654, built at York in 1935 as a Gresley Open Third, later converted for use as a Restaurant Car. Photographed leaving Pickering on 1 June 2013 as part of a NYMR train for Grosmont. [See image 43356] <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2013]](/images/44000/44588.jpg "Pickering")
![The NYMR steam breakdown crane, Cowans Sheldon ADRC95224 of 1926, photographed in June 2013 standing alongside the shed at Grosmont. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43411.jpg "Grosmont")
![Lambton tank no 29 receiving attention inside the shed at Grosmont on 6 June 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43652.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Class 4 2-6-0 no 76079 <I>'receiving attention'</I> outside Grosmont shed on 6 June 2013. [See image 23489]<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43740.jpg "Grosmont")
![Ex-SR <I>Schools</I> class 4-4-0 no 30926 <I>Repton</I> stabled in the sidings alongside Grosmont shed on 6 June.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43760.jpg "Grosmont")
![The 10.38 Middlesbrough - Whitby Northern DMU service, photographed shortly after leaving Grosmont platform 1 via the Esk Valley Line on 6 June 2013. The NYMR platforms stand on the right beyond the fence.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/44000/44215.jpg "Grosmont")
![Cowans Sheldon ADRC95224 of 1926, now the NYMR steam breakdown crane, photographed in June 2013 standing in the shed yard at Grosmont.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/44000/44610.jpg "Grosmont")
![View through the running shed at Grosmont on 6 June 2013. Locomotives receiving attention on this occasion are A4 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> and Lambton Tank no 29.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/45000/45166.jpg "Grosmont")
![D5061 awaits its turn at Grosmont station on the morning of 6 June 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/45000/45209.jpg "Grosmont")
![The NYMR's much loved ex-Southern S15 4-6-0 no 825 crosses the bridge over the Esk shortly after leaving Grosmont station on its way to the shed on 6 June 2013, just a few weeks before the locomotive's boiler ticket was due to expire. In the background BR Sulzer Type 2 D5061 can be seen on the north side of the level crossing. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/49000/49561.jpg "Grosmont")
![The level crossing at Grosmont on the NYMR on 6 June 2013, with Black 5 no 45428 <I>'Eric Treacy'</I> about to enter the station running tender first with the Pickering - Whitby <I>Yorkshire Coast Express</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/49000/49741.jpg "Grosmont")
![A4 Pacific no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> photographed alongside platform 2 at Grosmont on 5 October 2013 during the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's <I>LNER Gala</I> weekend.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44869.jpg "Grosmont")
![B1 61002 <I>Impala</I> approaching Levisham on 5 October with a train for Pickering during the NYMR's <I>LNER Gala</I>.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44881.jpg "Levisham")
![A train for Pickering stands at Goathland station platform 2 during the NYMR's <I>LNER Gala</I> weekend on 5 October 2013. The locomotive is A1 Pacific no 60163 <I>Tornado</I>.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44893.jpg "Goathland")
![B1 61002 <I>Impala</I> (aka 61264) on the crossing at Grosmont on 5 October during the NYMR's <I>LNER Gala</I> weekend.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44896.jpg "Grosmont")
![60007 <i>Sir Nigel Gresley</i>, hauling Pullman stock, about to depart from Levisham on 5 October bound for Pickering.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44903.jpg "Levisham")
![Former US Army transportation corps class S160 2-8-0 no 6046 photographed at Grosmont on 5 October 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44908.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>'Come on... come on...'</I> Waiting for the off at Levisham on 5 October 2013. Locomotive 60163 <I>Tornado</I> .<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44919.jpg "Levisham")
![B1 61002 crossing the moors on 5 October with a train near Goathland.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44926.jpg "Goathland")
![B1 61002 <I>Impala</I> with a train at Goathland on 5 October during the NYMR's <I>LNER Gala</I> weekend.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44945.jpg "Goathland")
![The south end of Grosmont station on 5 October featuring visiting US Army Transportation Corps class S160 2-8-0 no 6046, a visitor from the Churnet Valley Railway. <br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44947.jpg "Grosmont")
![<I>Tornado</I> makes a fine sight at Goathland on 5th October 2013 during the NYMR's <I>LNER Weekend</I>.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44964.jpg "Goathland")
![60163 <I>Tornado</I> with a train on the NYMR at Levisham on 5 October 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44978.jpg "Levisham")
![Black 5 45428 <I>Eric Treacy</I> photographed in Grosmont shed yard on 5 October 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44992.jpg "Grosmont")
![B1 61002 <I>Impala</I> running round at Pickering on 5 October.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/45000/45063.jpg "Pickering")
![About to depart south from Levisham on 5 October 2013 is 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I>, hauling a train of pullman stock.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 05/10/2013]](/images/45000/45193.jpg "Levisham")
![B1 61002 <I>Impala</I> at the bridge over the Esk just south of Grosmont station on 5 October 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/10/2013]](/images/45000/45223.jpg "Grosmont")
![Lambton Tank no 29 stands alongside Grosmont shed on 6 October 2013.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 06/10/2013]](/images/44000/44864.jpg "Grosmont")
![The north end of Grosmont NYMR Station on 15 December, showing the refurbished former Scarborough Falsgrave signal gantry framing the storage sidings. Maintenance work is in progress at the four way points on the connection to Network Rail beyond the platform end. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45655.jpg "Grosmont")
![The station name board on the NYMR Grosmont Station main platform showing the route options available (winter Sunday excepted) from the Northern Rail Esk Valley line platform sited on the opposite side of the station car park. The initials of the photographer are also indicated below the board!<br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45661.jpg "Grosmont")
![The open smokebox of 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> can be seen protruding from the purpose built maintenance facility on the east side of Grosmont NYMR Shed complex on 15 December. The nose of large logo liveried class 37 no 37264 is also in the picture.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45667.jpg "Grosmont")
![LNER Pacific 4464 <I>Bittern</I> approaching Goathland station in 2014.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //2014]](/images/56000/56667.jpg "Goathland")
![Preserved B1 4-6-0 no 61264, currently carrying the number 61034 and the name <I>Chiru</I>, stands in the sunshine at Grosmont station's platform 4 on 22 July 2014. [See image 44896] <br><br>[Colin Alexander 22/07/2014]](/images/48000/48560.jpg "Grosmont")
![Master of disguise 61264 brings a train into Pickering on 22 July 2014 masquerading as B1 61034 <I>Chiru</I>.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 22/07/2014]](/images/48000/48613.jpg "Pickering")
![A4 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> alongside Grosmont shed on 28 July 2014.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 28/07/2014]](/images/48000/48522.jpg "Grosmont")
![Most of ex-GWR 2-8-0 no 3814 stands in a siding at Grosmont in July 2014.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 28/07/2014]](/images/48000/48595.jpg "Grosmont")
![Lambton 0-6-2 Tank No. 29 approaching Goathland with a NYMR train in July 2014.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 29/07/2014]](/images/48000/48545.jpg "Goathland")
![Black 5 45428 passing Abbots House Farm, south of Goathland, on 29 July 2014.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 29/07/2014]](/images/48000/48639.jpg "Goathland")
![Hunslet 1944 built ex WD J94 132 <I>Sapper</I>, at Grosmont on 30 November on the rear of a recently returned 11.45 7 coach 'Santa Special'. After being checked for water it was then uncoupled and taken to the shed for a top up before taking out the 13.45 working, ably assisted by standard 4 2-6-0 76079, which provided most of the propulsion up the southbound gradients from the rear of the train. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 30/11/2014]](/images/49000/49618.jpg "Grosmont")
![Ex works Horwich built Standard 4 2-6-0 76079 at Grosmont on the front of the recently returned 13.45 7 coach Santa Special working that ran to Newtondale and back. J94 132 <I>Sapper</I> was on the other end [see image 49618]. 76079 was employed on these services to accumulate running in mileage, and provided much of the propulsion on the outward working. The pair took out the final return trip of the day at 15.45.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 30/11/2014]](/images/49000/49644.jpg "Grosmont")
![Fifty years to the day after formal closure of the line from Whitby to Rillington Junction, Standard 4MT 2-6-0 76079, prepares to leave Grosmont with its train to Pickering.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 06/03/2015]](/images/50000/50609.jpg "Grosmont")
![Fifty years and one day after BR closure of the line from Grosmont to Rillington Junction, K4 <I>The Great Marquess</I> and K1 62005 re-unite to storm the 1 in 49 to Goathland with the 10.00 Whitby to Pickering, just as they had done in 1965. Somehow the moguls designed for the West Highland Line look completely at home on the North Yorkshire Moors.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 07/03/2015]](/images/50000/50597.jpg "Goathland")
![Gresley K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> stands at Grosmont on 7 March 2015 with the 09.18 to Whitby, half a century after hauling the <I>'closure special'</I> over the line. 62005 is at the other end of the set. 61994 will enter Whitby tender first and run round to pilot 62005 on the return to Pickering. [See image 50597]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 07/03/2015]](/images/50000/50601.jpg "Grosmont")
![A North Yorkshire Moors Railway service from Pickering approaching its destination at Whitby on 13 April 2015, with Black 5 45407 running tender first.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/04/2015]](/images/51000/51020.jpg "Whitby")
![Looking east towards Whitby station on 13 April 2015 with a NYMR service in platform 1 on the left and a railtour from Chester at platform 2. Platform 2 was re-instated in 2014 and includes a run round loop to release a locomotive, although on this occasion both trains were top and tailed. The NYMR train has Class 25 D7628 with Black 5 no. 45407 at the other end, while the railtour has 66142 nearest and 66005 at the buffers.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/04/2015]](/images/51000/51031.jpg "Whitby")
![Sure footed and with clear exhaust, BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0, No. 75029 ascends the 1 in 49 bank between Grosmont and Goathland with a six-coach set at Darnholm on the NYMR, having departed Whitby at 14.00 on 22 May 2015.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 22/05/2015]](/images/51000/51398.jpg "Darnholm")
![View from the entrance to the revamped Whitby station on 23 October 2015. Note the extended platform and new trackwork which provide extra capacity, allowing NYMR services from Pickering and the Esk Valley line to run into Whitby. [See image 21258] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53173.jpg "Whitby")
![The new dedicated NYMR platform at Whitby, showing the pointwork from the loco release headshunt onto the run round loop, with the Northern Rail Esk Valley line on the right. [See image 21258]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53236.jpg "Whitby")
![Looking across the location of the former goods yard by Whitby station to a North Yorkshire Moors Railway through working standing at the new extended and dedicated south side platform, with BR Sulzer Type 2 Bo-Bo diesel D7628 seen at the head of the rake of Mk 1 coaches on a service ready to leave for Pickering. The restored former Whitby engine shed stands alongside the line beyond the loco <br><br>[David Pesterfield 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53465.jpg "Whitby")
![Looking seaward along the disused and disconnected tracks running along Whitby's Endeavour Wharf. The lines ran between the river and a large transhipment shed, enabling wagons to be loaded direct from seagoing vessels or from the shed itself. As the wharf has been out of use commercially for over a decade the goods shed has been demolished, and the cleared area is now used mainly for car parking. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/12/2015]](/images/53000/53610.jpg "Whitby")
![Standard class 4 76079 has just arrived at Whitby on the return working of the 11.00 Santa Special and is being readied to depart on the rear of the 13.00 departure, topping & tailing with BR Sulzer Type 2 diesel D7628. The Whitby Santa Specials run along the Network Rail Esk Valley line as far as Glaisdale, unlike the Grosmont and Pickering versions that stay on NYMR tracks. Note the loco is at the Network Rail platform, rather than the dedicated NYMR platform to the left.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/12/2015]](/images/53000/53720.jpg "Whitby")
![BR Sulzer Type 2 D7628 rounds the curve alongside the north end of the NYMR carriage sidings at Grosmont in December 2015, as it approaches the Esk Valley line station with a Santa Special working from Whitby to Glaisdale. BR Standard 76079 was assisting on the rear of the rake, plus providing copious amounts of steam heating, and hauled the service back to Whitby interspersed with a water top up stop at Grosmont Station. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/12/2015]](/images/54000/54174.jpg "Grosmont")
![BR Sulzer Type 2 D7628 waits in the Network Rail platform, normally used by Northern Rail services, at Whitby Town station ready to lead the second, early afternoon, 'Santa Special' to Glaisdale on 13 December 2015. BR Standard 76079 was connected at the rear to provide extra propulsion and steam heating, also to head the return working back to Whitby. There are no Sunday workings to Whitby during the winter period, which allowed 'Santa Special' workings to operate to Glaisdale on three weekends. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/12/2015]](/images/54000/54664.jpg "Whitby")
![First impressions can be misleading, with BR Standard 76079 appearing to be powering a rake of coaches round a curve. However the smoke tells the truth, being forward of the chimney, as the loco is in fact providing additional propulsion on the rear of a 'Santa Special' being hauled by BR Sulzer D7628 as it approaches Grosmont en route to Glaisdale on Sunday 13 December 2015. The Standard hauled the return working back to Whitby, plus provided ample steam heating to the carriages.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/12/2015]](/images/54000/54672.jpg "Grosmont")
![The tender tank from Bullied 'West Country' Pacific 34101 <I>Hartland</I> in an engineering company yard north of York in January 2016. Whether it is to be overhauled or a replacement is to be built is unclear.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 09/01/2016]](/images/54000/54110.jpg "York")
![60103 'Flying Scotsman' approaching Levisham on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 12 March 2016.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/03/2016]](/images/54000/54516.jpg "Levisham")
![76079 brings up the rear of a passenger train on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, D7628 being the lead engine.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/03/2016]](/images/54000/54604.jpg "Levisham")
![60103 returning to Goathland enroute to Grosmont.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/03/2016]](/images/54000/54622.jpg "Goathland")
![D213 'Andania' (Cunard Lines), prepares to take the the magnificent LNER teak set up the bank to Goathland and on to Pickering. Grosmont, NYMR on 18 June 2016. The finish achieved on both locomotive and coaches had to be seen to be believed!<br><br>[Brian Taylor 18/06/2016]](/images/55000/55694.jpg "Grosmont")
![Map of the North Eastern Railway system seen at Whitby station in June 2016, some 93 years after the company ceased to exist.<br><br>[Rod Crawford 27/06/2016]](/images/55000/55688.jpg "Whitby")
![Flashback - not the West Highland in the 1980s but the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 2016.<br><br>[Rod Crawford 01/07/2016]](/images/55000/55713.jpg "Grosmont")
![Inside the shed at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Rod Crawford 01/07/2016]](/images/55000/55802.jpg "Grosmont")
![26038 Tom Clift passing through the double track tunnel at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.<br><br>[Rod Crawford 01/07/2016]](/images/55000/55968.jpg "Grosmont Tunnels")
![D7628 at Grosmont on 01/07/2016.<br><br>[Rod Crawford 01/07/2016]](/images/56000/56018.jpg "Grosmont")
![My old French teacher used to say to those whose French was execrable, 'Your heid's fu' of bogie wheels'. Perhaps this is what he meant.<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/09/2016]](/images/57000/57051.jpg "Pickering")
![The 13.30hrs for Pickering gets away from Grosmont behind Standard Class 4MT Mogul 76079 on 19th September 2016.<br>
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<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/09/2016]](/images/61000/61205.jpg "Grosmont")
![Sage advice at Whitby station.<br>
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<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 24/10/2017]](/images/61000/61571.jpg "Whitby")
![61264 arrives at the Whitby Co-op, er, station on the 24th October 2017.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 24/10/2017]](/images/61000/61656.jpg "Whitby")
