The Scarborough to Whitby Railway - Scarborough to Cloughton Station
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The Lost Scarborough to Whitby Railway - Scarborough to Cloughton Station
The Scarborough to Whitby Railway opened in 1885 and lasted for 80 years until its sad demise and closure in 1965.
In this series, i shall be following the full course of the route, from Scarborough right up to Whitby and visiting all of the intermediate stations and points of interest along the route.
Now the Cinder Trail or Track, this route is fully accessable and has some of the most stunning scenary along any disused railway within the UK.
In this video walk i set off by passing the former Gallows Close Carriage Sidings, Scalby Viaduct and the former station site before finishing off just beyond the remains of Cloughton Station.
Archive footage by Frank Dene.
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Oh Ant what a masterpiece. What nostalgia. I'm in my late sixties, my parents (God rest their souls) lived at Burniston and my brother lived at Cloughton. I remember as a child being able to look over the parapet into the goods yard at Gallows Close and the entrance/exit of Falsgrave tunnel which I believe now sits under the steep ramp into Sainsburys carpark. Cloughton station and goods shed after closure eventually became excellent tea rooms and have since become private residences. I look forward to viewing the next in the series.
Agree John, the photographs and evocative music, pure nostalgia, magic.
What a great idea to do this line Ant. I won't get into a rant of how upsetting it is that it has closed, but rather admire and say well done for capturing the beauty of what's left of this line and thank you for sharing it and bringing it to our home screens. 👍🏻
Superb video again!
The old footage reminds me that not only have we lost so many railway lines, but, also a way of life. 👍🙂
Thankyou so much Ian
When i lived in Scarborough many years ago i used to cycle this path everyday from Scarborough to Burniston, where I worked. When i was at school in the mid 80s, used to go in the tunnel, and the track went just past where Sainsburys is now and under the road bridge before ending.
This was quite the walk along with great drone shots showing a beautiful countryside. Great old photos and film footage really help tell the story. Great work and a lot of walking.......
Glad you enjoyed it Mike thanks for watching
Life was so different back in the 60s and 70s so much history either torn up or demolished such a shame .. love this video content it takes you back to better times
The public wasn't using this line enough, outside of the holidaymakers, to generate enough revenue to cover a fraction of its costs. In other places infrastructure was no longer adequate for modern needs, such as the numerous goods depots in Sheffield, and had to be replaced. Those rose tinted hindsight views you have of the past hide all the problems that people back them were trying to improve in spite of the UK's basket case economy of the period.
Another amazing video Ant. You must put in a lot of research to bring us these old clips. I really appreciate the effort you put in to tell the complete story. Beautiful drone footage too. Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks for this video. Very helpful for me to understand the town and how it all fits together. Scarborough is the best place in the world and this only adds to its beauty. Very inspirational.
Glad you enjoyed it thank you. Parts 2 and 3 are now available too 🙂
That looks like a lovely jaunt, Ant, that archive shot of the crossing gate early on reminded me of the Denby Colliery line out of Ripley in Derbyshire.
Been a long while since I walked that track, but, about 10-15 years back everything was still in place, rails, signs, points levers and old school crossing gates where trains would come out the Colliery down to a junction on the mainline.
If memory serves there's a residential property with a platform in the garden.
Lovely stuff, again, dude. 👍
Just like the loftus to whitby branch, this is another one that was sent to us from the gods to enjoy and see this amazing area
What beautiful scenery that is and those fantastic bridges and via duck. Just loved that. Thanks,for taking me along. Please take care
Thanks very much Linda ☺️
Thank you for today’s video. Always enjoy the trip. Sadly, will probably never get back to the UK to see these places. Thats why I always look forward to them. Enjoy the weekend, and see you on the next, Ant! Cheers my buddy! ❤😊
Scalby viaduct looks a bit worse for wear. Without maintenance some of these are going to end up being demolished for safety reasons, which would be a huge loss!
That was brilliant Ant, Thanks for doing the walk and presenting it to us to watch.
Thanks very much Roy as always 😊
Wonderful stuff - well done again. Had this at my wedding 50 odd years ago so brought back very happy memories.
Thanks very much for watching John. Glad you enjoyed it
Its a shame all these senic railwways got axed.Travelling to Whitby by rail is a long journey now.As usual a well edited & presented video.Thanks Ant.
Outside of the summer months it was hardly used by locals. Then as now there were few people living along the line and the buses were were as fast but more frequent.
Ant, I'm still at work, lost my TRAIN of thought so will finish vid at home. Thanks ahead of time.....
Cheers Mike
I was so lucky to travel this line in the 60s. Thanks for bringing back so many memories, Ant. We shall be visiting next month, staying in our old home, Grosmont.
Wow. What a wonderful walk. beautiful scenery and what looks to be a wonderful lost Railway. Thanks for That, Ant, I look forward to the next videos!
Thanks very much Michael very kind
As always, informative interesting and well filmed and narrated. The link to the original footage was a great touch too, thanks for your efforts in making these great vids.👍👍
Loved the first instalment
I really like the old footage to accompany your walk
We are very lucky that the old footage was made. Thank you for watching 🙂
Beautiful music, it breaks my heart...thanks!
Thank you very much for watching 😊
Fantastic and so nostalgic! We walked that part of the old track from Scalby to Cloughton on many occasions but it was great to see the whole line from Scarborough itself. We used to visit Cloughton station regularly for many years for their unbeatable salmon sandwiches and cakes and we sat on the lawn where the track used to be. The friendly owners sadly decided to retire the tearoom business a few years ago. Greatly looking forward to the rest of the series.
Wonderfully informative video . Very enjoyable. Just to add I think the carriage sidings were officially known as The Northstead Carriage sidings. To relieve pressure on Scarborough Central Station the numerous excursions from the Industrial West Riding would terminate at Scarborough Londesborough Road Station , passengers alight and the train then proceed ECS through Falsgrave tunnel to the carriage sidings where trains and locos would be serviced in preparation for their return journey. Trains would then depart in the evening to Londesborough Station and load up and be away in minutes . Must have been incredible at the height of the summer excursion season during the inter war years.
An excellent informative video with great supporting photo stills and old train film footage.
Glad you enjoyed it Michael thank you
another great walk along another disused railway line from scarborough to whitby did not know about this one thanks mate looking forward part 2 Cheers Ant
Thanks Andrew, glad you enjoyed it :)
Nicely blended archive material to go with the walk. Enjoyable thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
4 more parts to come
Fantastic video Ant. Really like the way you’ve interspersed your footage with the old photos & video. Can’t believe how vast the area is where the sidings used to be. Love what they’ve done with Cloughton Station as well.
Looking forward to the next part 👍🏼😊
Hi Ant, excellent video, looking forward to the continuation. Thank you.
Thanks for watching Phillip
Excellent video... I visited Scarborough recently and spent a bit of time on the station watching the Trans Pennine Class 68s coming in and out, and walked along Platform 1 to the Signal Box to take some photos but never even noticed the tunnel entrance that lay behind it or that there was once a line behind the box to Whitby...
The tunnel is extremely hidden. The signal box is nice too. Thank you for watching
Great video Ant, thanks for taking us along. I have to echo other comments, it's a great pity that some of these lines where closed, they could have been real money spinners today
Amazing video Ant ! Thankyou . Beautiful old film footage . Ravenglass was my favourite.for a weekend break .in the restored rail carriages . Take care 🌞
Glad you enjoyed it Tereza. Plenty more to come :)
Love this old railway i have a lot of interest in this I used to live in one of the old railway cottages at Hinderwell station I hope you do from Whitby to Staithes now that is a spectacular walk 😉
I'm actually looking into going back later this year to go beyond Whitby ☺️
If you need any guidance Iet me no 😊
What a lovely video. My wife & I stayed at Claughton Station for a weekend many years ago,as it was a B&B & a Cafe, it also had the Goods shed as a holiday let. We cycled all the way to Scarborough & up towards Robin Hoods Bay. What a climb that was. The owners were very friendly and they had a lot of memorabilia in the cafe, so I gave them the number for the house, as I had an old Bridge number which was the same as the Station house. I hope it is still there.
We look forward to the next one as the beautiful views are to die for.
We walked this line a year ago.it’s stunnning . Nice to see it from someone else’s perspective. Also on our bucket list a stay in an old railway carriage. Maybe this year 🤞
Thanks very much Heather. I hope you get to go :)
Great scenery after your commentary at the end ❤
Thanks very much Phil
Superb video , amazing old film and photo's esp' the old camping coaches at Scalby , looking forward to P2
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you
Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting and beautiful
Glad you enjoyed it David thank you
Great video.I like the use of the vintage film and photos and I also look forward to seeing the rest of the line. Greetings from Australia.
Glad you enjoyed it Richard. 4 more parts to come too
Brilliant video Ant. It was so well edited with the old film clips and photos. 10 out of 10! Looking forward to the next in the series.
Thanks very much so pleased you enjoyed it :)
You will see me in part two that's for sure. Fantastic video full of interesting footage and information, well done Ant, you have put some hard work in making this series. Chris.
Glad you enjoyed it Chris. Part 2 is on right now :)
Lovely, thank you
Thanks very much Angela
Ant, thank you so much, looking forward to the next episodes. Take care.
Thanks Christine glad you enjoyed it
That was fantastic, I look forward to the next part.
Thanks very much 😊
Absolutely brilliant video,Ant. I have driven from Scarborough to Whitby many times and rode the motorcycle there as well.
I walked across the Larpool Lane viaduct too.
Beeching closed so many scenic railways that would have been busy again nowadays
I can't wait for the next installment.
Glad you enjoyed it thanks so very much. 4 more parts to come too
Platform 1A was built in 1908 to deal with the Whitby trains which until then had crossed over to a platform on the far side of the station as stated in the film. Falsgrave Tunnel predates this by over 20 years. The original plan for the Scarborough and Whitby Railway was to have their own station roughly where Sainsbury's is to the east bank of the river Esk in Whitby, but they soon realised it would be better to have connections to the NER at both ends of the line.
The trains using Platform 1A were limited to 2 coaches when propelling into or out of this platform with a brake coach leading. Longer trains either needed a pilot engine or had to have the engine run round the train at Londesborough Road station.
Gallows Close carriage sidings were primarily for the coaching stock off excursion trains terminAting at Londesborough Road station. There were other carriage sidings for trains using Scarborough station.
Love your videos but always feel sad afterwards and nostalgic ❤
Thanks James. I often feel that when i visit them
What a beautiful piece of history well done for sharing your journey with us I myself is half Yorkshire as me mam was originally from there xx
That was lovely Ant, can't wait for part two😊, xx
That's ready to go it'll be on any day now ☺️
Excellent vid Ant , fascinating part one looking forward to rest of the series .
Cheers Lewis thank you
Brilliant Ant. Already looking forward to the rest of the series!
Cheers thanks very much 🙂
This promises to be a great series of video's. The vintage images and film footage nicely illustrates the line's scale and importance, including those vast carriege/goods sidings at Scarborough. Your walk along the former trackbed reveals some wonderful railway architecture - bridges and viaduct especially - as well as the magnifient countryside which passengers enjoyed en route. Looking forward to the next instalment. Thank you!
Yet another excellent video. Keep up the good work...Thoroughly informative and entertaining.
Very kind thank you :)
If this is part one,I look forward tothe rst of the series!Another great video,thank you!
Thanks very much Robert. Part 2 is on now :)
Very much looking forward to the second video.
Well done.
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Part 2 is now available
Great video Ant. The loco D2051 was owned by a mate and last I heard of it was stored about ¼ mile from my house on North Norfolk railway. I've made a model of it in the condition it is on the film. You have found some awesome archive pictures. I actually walked through falsgrave tunnel when doing my driver training for BR in the 80s
Minor point the carriage sidings were actually called Northstead I believe. Not sure when they closed but can you imagine how many summer Saturday trains were run if they need that many sidings for them back in the heyday
I'd forgotten how large the carriage sidings were. They needed to be that big as excursion trains from all over the country would arrive at Londesborough Road station on a Saturday afternoon and then have to be stored for a week until they did their return journey the following Saturday morning. Londesborough Road station was only open during the summer holiday season, and possibly only on Saturdays.
An excellent production!! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Liked & Following!! 🚂
Thanks very much. I hope you enjoy the others too ☺️
Another top draw video well presented as always
Very kind thank you
Very good...loved the old footage you found too. Here's to part 2. All the best.
Thankyou as always Tim
Enjoyed the video cheers.
Thanks for watching
Incredible and well captured.
Thanks very much Carl
What a beautiful production Ant! Can't wait for this series, the quality of your work and research is amazing.
Very kind, thank you :)
My mother rode this line with an aunt of hers in 1961. She was 18 an her aunt was 36. It was ten years before I was born! ☹️
Thanks for another fantastic Video Ant. Love the inserts and drone shots, looking foreward to parts 2-3-4
Thanks very much Mick. Part 2 is ready to go 😉
Great 1st video ,very interesting great photos of how it used to be ,looking forward to the next chapter of your walk.
Thanks very much Robert. Part 2 is now available
@@TrekkingExploration Again another super video ,very informative and super views as well.
Just started watching this and what a great video. I'm so looking forward to the next videos. Many thanks.
Stunning video and production ♥️😃
Very kind Frank thank you 🙂
Hi Ant what a brilliant video ! I can remember riding into Scarborough station in the late seventies & early eighties from Rotherham via York & it was so busy with lots of tracks & signals. So many memories of holidays with loved ones who sadly have now passed.
Scarborough & Whitby are my favorite places to holiday in the UK. The train Station we departed from In Rotherham no longer exists its now an indian Restaurant! But its so much nicer than the new modern one. This video is full of nostalgia featuring beautiful scenery cant wait for watch the next part! Thank you ❤😊
Excellent video thanks 😊 🎉🎉
Glad you enjoyed it Chris
Ah yes the Scarborough to Whitby line. It was closed by time I move to Scarborough in 70, but I think the Falsgrave tunnel entrance is still there today even if it is blocked up. When you walked along platform 1 I could see my old flat in the background. How amazing and thank you for this.
Wonderful stuff Ant. Thanks cobber.
Cheers Marc. Part 2 is almost ready to go 😉
Good video keep it up I love it I am from Scarborough
Glad you enjoyed it David
One your best vidieo's to date, really really enjoyed this.❤
Yay! Thank you! Part 2 is now available
I’m old cause I remember watching the horse drawn wagons coming out of Falsgrave goods yard .Scalby was a beautiful stn used to go there to watch the trains & again horse drawn carts dropping off milk churns .Later seeing the green holiday coaches in the siding ,My mates g/ dad worked there before L,N,E,R, days ,
Thanks very much for watching. Some nice memories there :)
Excellent video. I've walked this line myself several times. The reason for the size of Gallows Close Sidings was that it was there that the railway kept all the seaside specials from various parts of the country. They were often very empty the majority of the week, but come the weekend.......! Looking forward to the next video. I also travelled the line in the 1950s, to a caravan site, where we were marooned for 5 days in monsoon weather one Whit Bank Holiday! The day for the homeward journey was cloudless. Happy times!
I hope you enjoyed your stay in north yorkshire
Im already planning on coming back 😊
Great video mate, it’s a lovely walk on that line, I’ve stayed twice at Cloughton station, it was a B&B and Tea Rolms for a number of years but they just do the B&B nowadays I think.
A Recommended stay…Great Breakfast!
I’ve walked and cycled the rest of the line and the views along the way in parts are great but that’s all I’m going to say.
Another great video Ant.
Between Gallows Close and Northstead Carriage Sidings there were two independent tracks the one on the West side was the line to and from the carriage sidings and the one on the East was the single line to Whitby. On the bit of film of the demolition contractors brakevan special I'm sure I saw Joe Brown the P. Way Inspector on the platform in a light coloured cap. He was a bit of a perfectionist and liked things looking just right so it must have been a very sad trip for him.
If you look closely at the platforms on this line like the ones at Cloughton there is not a lot of space for two roads as the standard spacing between the tracks was only 5foot 6inches on the NER and not the standard 6 foot on most of the railways in the UK.
Just watched this, looks great, I'm going to do the cycle track from Scarboro to Whitby.
I think you will love it :)
Not my area but still really interesting. Well made video with lots of facts. I like the idea of doing a whole line and making it in parts. I look forward to the next one. Thanks Ant.
Glad you enjoyed it Martin thank you
I was never there, and probably will never be there, but the beauty of your images, drone shots, music and the historic images and films had a truely emotional impact on me, really beautiful
Thanks very much Thomas i'm pleased :)
Outstanding. So informative. Scenery amazing. Beautiful weather. Filming the best. What a fabulous video.
Thanks as always Shirley
Fantastic
Great vlog Ant. I have the same thing on my bucket list as you. To stay in a holiday carriage. I looked at the one at the end of your vlog, Hawksker Station but fully booked next year 👍👍
I looked at the one at Sandsend on Monday the views are extraordinary
Forgot to add, I love the old photos & videos you put in between such nostalgia, the briar blossom has been beautiful this year, brilliant video as usual😊 xx
Glad you enjoyed it! The old pictures and footage make a difference
At Cloughton you can book the railway carriages and the building was the old goods shed you can book them as self catering holiday accommodation
There is also train carriages at hawsker Station one of them is a bike hire and the other you can book as holiday lets
Thank you an excellent video. Given the popularity of Whitby and its surroundings as holiday destinations and of rail travel now I wonder whether this line could have proved profitable.
Thank you. I feel it would do very well today
Absolutely brilliant can’t wait for part 2. You popped up on my feed so me always wanting to know what it would of been like thought I’d watch it. I’m bloody glad I did beautiful scenery that can only get better the further on you go.
Glad you enjoyed it Alan thank you. Part 2 of 5 is now available :)
A beautiful walk ,this line should never have been closed,pure vandalism.
I imagine it would have been rather well used today
Cycled it last year. There and back in a day. Great route.
It's lovely indeed
fantastic and informative video as always. such a shame this line closed as im sure it would be a fantastic tourist/heritage line today. cant wait for further episodes
Looking forward to the larpool Viaduct episode Ant.
Thanks Alan it shall be in Parts 4 & 5
Possible my favourite old railway walk, and I'm so glad you've started to do it, your such a fantastic guy to tell the story and bring the past and the present together in such perfect harmony, I haven't seen it in many exploring RUclips pages, always coming back to watch your videos, great job mate!!
Thanks very much Stephen. I am surprised more people have not covered this route :)
@@TrekkingExplorationthink the 21/22 miles puts off alot of people
Great video Ant, looking forward to the rest of the series. Just love the East Coast of Yorkshire, spent many happy holidays there when I was growing up, these days I take my grandkids there. How time flies, where did it all go!
Its such a lovely coastline. I was back there doing more stuff just this past week
Best. Show. Ever. 👍🏻👏🏻💯
Wow, thanks!
Almost getting used to the high quality and content of your video's now Ant, can't you do a rubbish one just to throw us all off track?! (Get it, off track?!) Cracking production, an area of the county close to my heart. Keep them coming. Cheers mate
I've got some stuff from 3 years ago I never used shall I do one? 😂
@@TrekkingExploration Yep, get it posted 🙂
Cloughton is correct how you say it. The a in Falsgrave and Scalby is more like an o, so pronounced folsgrave and scolby
You're right about folsgrave, but we pronounced it scawby. Not sure which is right.
Also at the top of the carriage sliding was a turntable its now the playground
Did you know that there is hatch in the gardens over the tunnel for access to the tunnel i went in about 20 years ago with a friend who once worked for the railway
That would be rather good to have a look inside now wouldn't it?
@@TrekkingExploration sure would I had some photos but lost in my move also top of tunnel in gallows close is still there as you go in main entrance look to the right on the access road to back of store the stone wall wing is visible
I lived in Scarborough 10 years and exploring was fun
It's sad when they rip up old Railway lines - I've always wondered - if they hadn't closed all them Railway lines - would they be less traffic on the roads today??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂
I think so yes maybe not a great deal. I think this one would be more of a tourist railway