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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 .
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 Whitby and Pickering Railway was a horse-worked line engineered by George Stephenson, which opened between Whitby and Grosmont in 1835. At the time, the station was known as Tunnel, named after the tunnel required to pass from Grosmont towards Beckhole. [1] In 1845, the railway was sold to George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway ...
Goathland railway station. Goathland railway station is a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the village of Goathland in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England.
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
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.
Grosmont (/ ˈ ɡ r oʊ m ɒ n t / GROH-mont; archaically spelt Growmond) [2] is a village and civil parish situated in Eskdale in the North York Moors National Park, within the boundaries of the county of North Yorkshire, England. Grosmont Priory was established in the 12th century and closed during the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th
Grosmont is a civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 15 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England . Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.