Date: 08/08/2017

A heritage steam railway has been awarded £4.6m by the Heritage Lottery fund. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) said the funding represented half of a planned £9.2m sustainability project which aimed to secure the railway's future. The railway, which runs steam trains between Pickering and Whitby, attracts 350,000 passengers a year. Owned and operated by a charitable trust it employs 100 people. It also relies on about 1,000 volunteers and NYMR claims it contributes around £30m to the regional tourist economy.

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£5m grant for heritage steam railway

BBC News

The award is designed to improve the sustainability of the heritage railway.

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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.
Location: Pickering
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
28/06/2011 John Furnevel

60163 Tornado with a train on the NYMR at Levisham on 5 October 2013.
Location: Levisham
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
05/10/2013 Peter Todd

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Location: Darnholm
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
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