Scenic route
Esk Valley Line
Middlesbrough → Whitby · England
- Distance
- 56 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 33 min
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Train
- Class 156 / 158
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1835
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An hour and a half from Teesside across the North York Moors and down the river to the sea, on rails that reached Whitby in 1835 and were worked by horses for the first ten years.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 7532463 (53 km), relation 7589234 (0 km) — 53 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
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