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Great North Of England Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Skelton Junction York, Leeds service passing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7187.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![Deltic D9017 <i>The Durham Light Infantry</i> at speed on the ECML 'race track' near Sessay, North Yorkshire, in 1972 with train 1E05 the up <I>'Flying Scotsman'</I>.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1972]](/images/38000/38576.jpg "Sessay")
![Shunting the yards at York in 1980. View south from Skelton Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/07/1980]](/images/3000/3461.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![45036 on a Poole - Newcastle train passes 40085 on a PW train shortly after leaving York in 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/07/1980]](/images/4000/4856.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![An EE Type 4 coming off the York station avoiding line on the approach to Skelton Junction with a northbound ballast train in July 1980 .<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/07/1980]](/images/6000/6043.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![A southbound express freight, double headed by 31295+37171 on the northern approach to York station at Skelton Junction on 21 July 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/07/1980]](/images/20000/20707.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![40122 leaving York yards for the north in July 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/1980]](/images/6000/6019.jpg "Landing Lane Bridge Junction")
![View south from Skelton Junction as 47407 leaves York with a Newcastle train in 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/07/1980]](/images/2000/2456.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![<I>Peak</I> 45025 passing through the yards at York with a down freight in the summer of 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/07/1980]](/images/3000/3452.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![40077 with a northbound ECML train passing Shipton, North Yorkshire, on 15 August 1980.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/08/1980]](/images/36000/36555.jpg "Beningbrough")
![Deltic 55002 <I>The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> at the head of an up ECML train passing the Edinburgh - London <I>half way</I> sign at Shipton, on the northern approach to York, on 16 August 1980<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/08/1980]](/images/26000/26465.jpg "Beningbrough")
![40016 with a northbound train on the ECML near Beningbrough, north of York, in the summer of 1980.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/08/1980]](/images/49000/49170.jpg "Beningbrough")
![An East Coast Main Line HST approaches Thirsk station on the fast lines in February 1982.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/02/1982]](/images/55000/55062.jpg "Thirsk")
![Class 37s 37511+37504 head a northbound freight through Thirsk on 18 August 1989, as an up HST is about to pass with an ECML service bound for Kings Cross.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/1989]](/images/33000/33198.jpg "Thirsk")
![The 11.34 Manchester Airport - Middlesbrough First TransPennine service about to leave Thirsk on 1 April 2008 as a northbound Cross Country Voyager runs through the station on the down fast line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2008]](/images/18000/18729.jpg "Thirsk")
![The First TransPennine 0959 Middlesbrough - Manchester Airport service arrives at Thirsk on Tuesday morning in April 2008 with a fair number of passengers waiting on the platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2008]](/images/18000/18831.jpg "Thirsk")
![Freightliner 66523 speeds south through Northallerton with loaded coal hoppers on 3 October 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/10/2008]](/images/21000/21703.jpg "Northallerton")
![<I>The race track</I> is the unofficial name given to Britains longest straight stretch of main line, being that part of the ECML covering the 30 miles or so betweeen Northallerton and York, of which two thirds is almost dead straight. View is from the down platform at Northallerton on 3 October 2008 as a Freightliner class 66 heads south towards York with coal hoppers. The train is signalled for the up slow line beyond the platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2008]](/images/21000/21269.jpg "Northallerton")
![Famous for many years as The Sidings Hotel, with accommodation in MkI coaches, this building alongside the ECML is now an Italian Restaurant. The station itself, Shipton and Beningbrough, closed in 1958, was a short distance to the north. 185108 heads south in this view towards York. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/12/2008]](/images/21000/21805.jpg "Beningbrough")
![The Sunday morning 0908 Leeds - Glasgow Central CrossCountry service accelerates away from the stop at York on 19 April 2009. Most of the railway land in the background is earmarked for the massive York Central <I>'Teardrop'</I> development (so called because of the shape of the site) which will comprise over 86 acres of housing, offices and retail units and on which work is scheduled to start in the near future. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/04/2009]](/images/23000/23499.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![A southbound PW train takes the York station avoiding line at Water End Bridge on a wet Sunday morning in April 2009 behind EWS 66106.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/04/2009]](/images/25000/25002.jpg "Skelton Junction")
![A Kings Cross - Aberdeen HST passes the Siemens Depot (opened 2007) shortly after leaving York station in March 2010. The sidings in the foreground give access the National Railway Museum site.<br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2010]](/images/30000/30876.jpg "York")
![66712 Peterborough Power Signalbox on southbound First GBRF loaded Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station working passes Shipton north of York at 10.33 just prior to northbound empty working passing<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28241.jpg "Beningbrough")
![66711 on First GBRF Drax Power Station to Tyne Dock empty northbound working passes Shipton north of York at 10.35 on 25 Mar '10 just after loaded working passed heading south<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28242.jpg "Beningbrough")
![Cross Country Voyager speeds south by the rear of the GBRF Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station loaded working, with one of the sleeping carriages at The Sidings Hotel at Shipton north of York visible on left.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28243.jpg "Beningbrough")
![The up <I>'Flying Scotsman'</I> hurries past flooded fields on the approach to Tollerton, approximately 10 miles north of York, on 25 March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28270.jpg "Tollerton")
![The 1135 Manchester Airport - Middlesbrough heads past the site of Alne station, 10 miles north of York on the ECML, in March 2010. Opened by the GNoER in 1841 the station also became the western end of the independent Easingwold Railway 50 years later. This resulted in the addition of a bay platform on the east side of the line and a crossover to the goods yard on the west side. Alne station closed to passengers in 1958 and has since been demolished, although the former goods yard and shed, now in private ownership, are still in use.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28568.jpg "Alne")
![A CrossCountry service runs north through the site of Tollerton station in the Vale of York on 25 March 2010. Nothing remains of the station, which closed to pasengers in 1965, but the site sees regular use nowadays by engineering and maintenance staff.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/29000/29170.jpg "Tollerton")
![Station House at Tollerton, North Yorkshire, photographed in March 2010. View is east with Tollerton village behind the camera and with the road on the left rising to cross the ECML. The station here closed to passengers in November 1965 but nowadays a yard and engineer's sidings are located on the up side of the line and shown on rail maps as Tollerton sidings [see image 29170]. [With thanks to all who responded to this query, in particular to Mick Dowson, the current owner of the property.] <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/34000/34948.jpg "Tollerton")
![The former goods shed and yard at Alne, seen looking north east from the roadside on 25 March 2010. Alne station closed to passengers in 1958 and was subsequently demolished. The surviving goods facilities are currently used by a stonemason. [See image 28568] [Ref query 1673] <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/60000/60445.jpg "Alne")
![HST power car 43301 leads a southbound Cross County service on the Up Fast line passing through the middle of Thirsk's platforms on 4 February 2012. Stopping services can now only use the outer (slow line) faces of the island platforms. View north towards Northallerton. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/02/2012]](/images/37000/37495.jpg "Thirsk")
![The Up Platform at Thirsk sees TPE 185150 departing on a service from the North East heading for Manchester Airport. View north towards Northallerton from the station footbridge. Not the most convenient layout as passengers travelling north have to climb the footbridge and cross the Up Slow line, descend to this booking office for their tickets and then climb the steps again to cross the fast lines to the Down Platform.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/02/2012]](/images/37000/37630.jpg "Thirsk")
![TransPennine 185150 forms the 08.35 Manchester Airport - Middlesbrough preparing to restart its journey north on 9 July 2012 following the stop at Thirsk.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/39000/39618.jpg "Thirsk")
![Having run through Thirsk station on the up slow line on 9 July, MPV DR 98955 is about to pass below the A61 on its way south. The fast lines can be seen on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/39000/39736.jpg "Thirsk")
![The 09.30 Kings Cross - Edinburgh speeds through Thirsk on the down fast line on 9 July 2012. The train is on the straight 'race track' section between York and Darlington. This train has a scheduled start-stop time of 28 minutes for the 45 mile leg.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/41000/41010.jpg "Thirsk")
![MPV DR 98955 runs south through Thirsk station on the up slow line on 9 July 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/41000/41171.jpg "Thirsk")
![GBRf 66706 runs south past the <I>Edinburgh 200 miles</I> sign at Shipton, north of York, on Sunday 5 May 2013. The loaded coal wagons are destined for Drax power station.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 05/05/2013]](/images/43000/43094.jpg "Beningbrough")
![The Sidings Hotel & Restaurant at Beningbrough and two of the three grounded Mark One accommodation carriages seen through the site entrance on 29 June, with a semaphore signal standing guard by the roadside. A further two parallel carriages are out of view to the left, with one a first class layout dining carriage to supplement the dining area of the main building. Both have a clear view of activity on the East Coast Main Line which runs on the far side of the building. [See image 21805]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 29/06/2014]](/images/47000/47810.jpg "Beningbrough")
![A smokebox door mocked up and purporting to be from Raven Q6 0-8-0 63412 adorns the wall of the entrance foyer of <I>The Sidings</I> Hotel and Restaurant adjacent to the ECML. The door displays a 52F Blyth shed plate, despite that loco being allocated to 51C West Hartlepool during its final years of service. The door, which is with hinges on the wrong side, appears to be from another class of loco, as the hinges do not match those in views of the class and there is not a pillar type protrusion on the centre line near the edge of the door on the opposite side to the hinges. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 29/06/2014]](/images/47000/47820.jpg "Beningbrough")
![GBRf imported former <I>Eurospec</I> class 66 no 66747 heads north at Beningbrough on 18 October 2014 with a rake of empty Drax Power biomass wagons. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 18/10/2014]](/images/49000/49110.jpg "Beningbrough")
![Freightliner 66588 on the northbound slow line at Overton Lane overbridge near Beningbrough on 12 February with a rake of empty coal wagons.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/02/2015]](/images/50000/50346.jpg "Beningbrough")
![91108 propels an ECML service south at speed passing Castle Hills Junction. This image was taken from a train on the adjacent reversing line. The <I>Wensleydale and Durham Coast</I> excursion had visited the Wensleydale Railway and was waiting to rejoin the main line. For a view from the other side of the train at this location [See image 50809].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/03/2015]](/images/50000/50768.jpg "Castle Hills Junction")
![A large Ainscough scissor crane by Warehill Lane road overbridge work site between Tollerton and the A19 road. A new bridge has been installed, possibly to give W10 gauge clearance on the ECML slow lines, as part of a series of bridge replacement works on five consecutive bridges. Work began initially at both Station Lane, Shipton (by Beningbrough) and Forest Lane, Alne. As well as replacement of this bridge, work is currently being carried out at Chapmans Lane, next bridge south towards Shipton, with work yet to start on the final bridge at Station Road, Tollerton. Each bridge replacement rquires a near four month road closure, hence a staggered pattern of work to maintain near at hand diversion routes around the work area. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 29/12/2015]](/images/53000/53753.jpg "Tollerton")
![A view across the work site for the bridge replacement on Warehill Lane, south east of Tollerton on 29 December. The large Ainscough crane used to remove the old bridge structure and install its replacement over the four track East Coast Main Line.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 29/12/2015]](/images/53000/53808.jpg "Tollerton")
![A view looking east at the extremely shabby rail overbridge over the east coast main line on Station Road at Tollerton north of York. It is expected that this bridge will be replaced shortly as last part of a programme of installing five new structures from Beninborough to Forest Lane Alne. The bridges at these two locations were completed last year and the next two towards Beninborough are nearing completion. Station Road will be closed for some 6 months once work gets underway, but a new bridge will give a vast improvement in appearance.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54333.jpg "Tollerton")
![Arriving at the platform is the slightly late 15.31 TPE ex York to Middlesbrough. Yes, it WAS blowy and raining! (Storm Brian strikes).<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 21/10/2017]](/images/61000/61478.jpg "Thirsk")
![Looking north to the poorly maintained and narrow width ECML over-bridge across the A167 Northallerton Road, a short distance to the south of Croft on Tees village. The large Tees Bridge, over the River Tees, lies approx 100m to the right.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/11/2017]](/images/61000/61941.jpg "Croft Spa")
