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The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, that runs through the North York Moors National Park. First opened in 1836 as the Whitby and Pickering Railway , the railway was planned in 1831 by George Stephenson as a means of opening up trade routes inland from the then important seaport of Whitby .
Grosmont is a railway station on the Esk Valley Line, which runs between Middlesbrough and Whitby via Nunthorpe. The station, situated 6 miles 24 chains (10.1 km) west of Whitby, serves the village of Grosmont , North Yorkshire , England.
The rolling stock preserved on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is used to operate trains on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England. There are various preserved steam and diesel locomotives, and diesel multiple units , passenger coaches, and goods wagons.
The first tunnel, which is 120 yards (110 m) long, is sometimes referred to as Grosmont Old Tunnel [8] or as the Horse Tunnel as the initial railway was a horse operated tramway. [9] Both bores tunnel under Lease Rigg, [10] a hill just south of Grosmont which when the first tunnel was excavated, was found to contain iron ore. Various kilns ...
The lines and platforms to the left are the northern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), a heritage railway which operates steam hauled passenger services from Pickering. Some NYMR trains continue beyond Grosmont over the Esk Valley Line to Whitby, using the junction in the distance.
The station buildings were to the design of the NER's architect Thomas Prosser and were very similar to those being built concurrently (by the same contractor, Thomas Nelson) on the Castleton to Grosmont section of the Esk Valley Line at Danby, Lealholm, Glaisdale and Egton.
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The North Yorkshire Moors Railway operates heritage steam trains between Whitby and Grosmont. To allow through running of trains directly from the North Yorkshire Moors Line, an intermediate token instrument was provided at Grosmont in March 2007. This allows a token for the Glaisdale to Whitby section to be obtained, or returned, at Grosmont.