Esk Valley Line

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmMiddlesbrough
2. 4 kmJames Cook
3. 5 kmMarton
4. 7 kmGypsy Lane
5. 7 kmNunthorpe
6. 14 kmGreat Ayton
7. Show 7 more stations

   1. 18 kmBattersby
   2. 20 kmKildale
   3. 27 kmCommondale
   4. 29 kmCastleton Moor
   5. 32 kmDanby
   6. 37 kmLealholm
   7. 41 kmGlaisdale
8. 43 kmEgton
9. 46 kmGrosmont
10. 51 kmSleights
11. 54 kmRuswarp
12. 56 kmWhitby +1

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7532463 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of train 86050
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Esk Valley Line?

The Esk Valley Line runs 56 km from Middlesbrough to Whitby.

How long does the Esk Valley Line take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 33 min for the 56 km. That is an average of 36 km/h end to end.

Who runs the Esk Valley Line?

Northern, with Class 156 / 158.

How old is the Esk Valley Line?

The line has been in service since 1835. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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