Whitby would be railwayless if Doctor Beeching had his way! Before he infamously arrived at BR in 1962, the direct, coastal line from Middlesborough-Whitby had closed in 1958. Beecing's axe would see the lines to Scarborough and the main line out of Whitby to York via Grosmont Junction & Pickering, (the latter becoming the North Yorkshire Moors Railway) would both close by the Doctor's axe in 1965. Which left the line from Whitby-Grosmont Junction and it's branch to Battersby, where it met another branch from Middlesborough, all due for the axe but the quality of the roads in the area meant that buses would be unable to bring school kids into Whitby! And that's why the trains reverse at Battersby, they were originally two separate lines! Great track that you've used for incidental music on this vlog!
Excellent video, G! Hope the rest of the Esk Valley line was a nice as this bit, because everywhere looked really lovely. It's always a good vlog when there's a monument on top of a hill for you to trek to!
I’m kind of lost tbh GLT as to where you’ve been and where you’re going but, no worries , I just enjoy your videos. I love your exploring the locality of each station .m
Great video G nice to see you travelling the Esk valley line don't forget to go on the North Yorkshire moors rly while your there when you get to whitby don't forget the 199 steps up to the Abbey its a great view from there ❤
I used to go to Whitby there when I was a lot younger with my family. It's a rather pretty part of the uk. I remember climbing all those 199 steps too but took a short break a few times half way up/down when I wanted to sit down on a bench a few mins with my family. We stayed in a big c.h.a house right next to the abbey there, but I think the house has since been demolished. I really enjoyed it back then though. With G doing the esk valley on the trains in this video, this comment has left me wondering…. is there a train link that goes directly to whitby at all? If so.. where from and where to please? If it was possible for me, I wouldn't mind taking in the beautiful views of Whitby again some day, but going by train would feel quite special, unlike how I used to travel there by car with my family years ago.
On the Esk Valley, trains are more often than not doubled up to 4-cars during the summer, but generally only run as single 2-car units during the winter. It's a beautiful part of the world ... and the trains go slowly so that you can savour the views!
Well done Miss , Excellent Video and full of information , You look like you love doing this ya Videos are brilliant and I will always enjoy watching them, Kindest Regards and don't ever stop what you are doing , You bring such a lot of Joy to lots of people. Enjoy what you do and all the Best G .
G is a beautiful women she enjoys the trains and the vlogs are brilliant, good luck in everything she does the videos are excellent. Enjoy watching OK.
Love to go ride on the Esk Valley Line. And to visit some amazing railway stations. Plus Northern wants 450 new trains to replace the existing diesel and electric trains since they now have the CAF Class 195 and Class 331 Civity units.
Hi G, Wow, Yorkshire & Humberside is so beautiful, the view from Captain Cooks Monument is like paradise, getting yourself lathered in sweat was well worth the effort!! These smaller stations are so quaint and you paint a pretty picture with your camera(s) and the joy and enthusiasm just tops everything off. looking forward to the next one. Stay safe
@@GLovesTrains If you ever find yourself in Nunthorpe station you'll be fine - there is a SPAR shop right outside and ever of interest an actual manned signal box at the end of the platform PLUS be still my beating heart a level crossing - It has it all G.
Before I moved south, I planned to do this line for 2 years, and never managed it. I haven't done between Middlesborough and South Bank or Middlesborough and James Cook because I drove to Saltburn to do all stops back to South Bank, and then to Nunthorpe to go down to James Cook and back. But the fact this line gets (or at least got, the timetable may have changed since then) 4 trains a day, in peak times only except on sundays, I was always put off. I have done Grosmont and Whitby, but on the NYMR. But as it's a section that's the mainline that the heritage trains run on, it counts for me ticking them off. Still, I want to do them on mainline trains too.
Brilliant video G, this is a line that I haven't been on yet but does look nice indeed. Don't think that 0458 doesn't run being honest as the 1st train is the 0548 to Carlisle.
Lovely video G , this is my favourite line , looking forward to see Grosmont and more. , The public footpath story, I think we all may have done that at sometime or another.😃
I live in southern Co Durham and that line is just down the road from me.Trains are often 4 car on the Whitby line I think because of the school as kids use it to go to school in Whitby.Kildale and Commondale don't have mobile phone reception but if you walk up the hill behind Commondale station it works.I use to go stargazing at Commondale but there's a terrible light pollution problem now with floodlights on a house west of the station.That other platform at Battersby is occasionally used by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to run locomotives around which specials go up there.
Really enjoyed this! I travel on this line a lot down to Grosmont from Middlesbrough. Glad the weather stayed nice for you. Thanks for visiting the area and doing a video about this line! 😄
Nice vlog. I was travelled to Whitby when I did my great UK journey many years ago and in Whitby did I broke the law by climb outside a fence to walk over the Larpool viaduct, today is the viaduct open for walkers and cycles.
Great vid. I was on holiday in Whitby and ticked off all the stations between there and Nunthorpe. Did some walks between stations to fill the long waits. Loved Battersby and Commondale. Battersby because it felt like it used to be much more important, and Commondale because of the entrance through a field!
The scenery in this series gets prettier and prettier 👍 There used to be a line from Battersby that continued westbound and joined the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line, passing through the delightfully named village of Sexhow, but that line closed to passengers in 1954
im loving all 3 lovely stations and the monument looks amazing & the scenery looks amazing in the sunshine awesome vlog & im looking forward to seeing the rest of the line
Brilliant video G, the Esk Valley line does look pretty, I don't think I've heard of this line or any of the places on it before. Also I see the clone has been making a few apperances in this one lol.
Fantastic line great views G. last time I went down that line from Middlesbrough to whitby was on a 142 unit was a bit of a roller-coaster of a ride all the sharp bends in the track!! 🙄 Still well worth the trip tho, looking forward to rest of Vblog of this line cheers 👍🤗
Great video as always. Lovely line. I walked from Commondale to Castleton Moor station a few years back in the spring. So many cute lambs to see en route and the views are stunning.
Well G, that was absolutely brilliant, I enjoyed it very much. I'm at work on the ship so your video really cheered me up. Loved that you could see the monument from the train. One of the great things I love about climbing hills is seeing a landmark like that and knowing that you have been up there and seen and touched it for yourself. Love your enthusiasm and your joy in all that you do. You are a tonic. Don't ever change. Enjoy your time staying in Middlesborough and getting the rest of those lines done.
I really love your videos G, hopefully I get to see more of you & get to me you one day. Whether I come to the U.K to visit, or you & Lucy come to U.S to visit.❤❤❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🧡💛❤
I have seen trains do a reverse move in Orange, New South Wales, Australia too. Orange is on a railway junction and the station was built on the northern track. So when the weekly Outback Xplorer from Sydney to Broken Hill runs there it has to go down the northern track to the platform, then reverse out back onto the eastern line so it can head to Broken Hill on the western line. By the way Orange is named after Prince William of Orange not because they grow a lot of oranges there.
great one again as always how about doing ones down West Sussex from Gatwick to the coast and be on my favourite train the class 700 series the thameslink trains i love
Great video as always, GLoves Trains. I made the return journey from Middlesbrough to Whitby last Saturday 5th August on a day interspersed with intense showers of rain, but the scenery was as good as ever. We were delayed at Glaisdale (you'll be featuring this station soon, obvs) because the line was flooded on the way to Whitby, but we soon got going. The River Esk by this stage was a muddy brown torrent😄
It's the ghost of Gladys Durchdenwald von Smith. She was a part-time seamstress and highway robber, She was stampeded by a group of annoyed Heffers in 1807.
I really like the railway the video of the esk valley. Looks like there's some very pretty countryside views around there which is something I'd love to see for myself in some way one day. It seems like you're not very far from a lovely place called Whitby there either. I used to travel there with my family (by car) when I was a lot younger. I'm in my 30s now. I wouldn't mind a trip back there by train one day if I knew where the trains went from. But the bbc news on our tv is constantly filling my head with train strikes, I feel very confused whether or not there are still any trains running at all. :-/ Yet here you are, still making these brilliant and fascinating videos, and I'm just sat here watching, wondering (and wishing to myself) if I'll ever get to do a train journey despite these bothersome news programmes on the train strikes. *Sigh. * You're making lots of lovely videos, I've been sat watching most of them but not really commenting for most of them. You do a brilliant job though, so long may it continue.☺️
@@GLovesTrains Thank you for the very helpful comment G. ☺️ Middlesbrough is a fair distance to travel. It maybe part of North Yorkshire where you made this video along the Esk Valley. Hopefully one day for me. Thank you again, and happy vlogging.☺️☺️
Did you have a great thyme making this vlog? I like the way you always pepper what you're doing with sage advice. Looking at your list of patrons I reckon you must be minted.
Where did you stay in Middlesbrough? I used the Holiday Inn Express on Albert Road, near MIMA. It was good, but quite a bit more expensive than the one in Bradford. I think the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough is still closed, pity as it could have given you an unusual ride on rails. Middlesbrough - Whitby really does need a better service. You didn’t mention the water column on the platform at Battersby.
@@GLovesTrains I wonder if the scaffolding was covering the water column for some sort of maintenance; it would be difficult to not notice something that size otherwise.
I stayed at Holiday inn express in Middlesbrough a few years ago with a friend. It's a nice hotel and we got a cheap room (probably because it was february). I love premier inn too! 🙂👍
Who wants Nick Badley in his next video to sing. When you’re at ……….. you put your pants upon your head, you put your pants upon your head, you put your pants upon your head, when you’re at …….. you put your pants upon your head, and you shout squishy 🙉
Your joy comes across so much in this video!
Thanks Jen!
Whitby would be railwayless if Doctor Beeching had his way!
Before he infamously arrived at BR in 1962, the direct, coastal line from Middlesborough-Whitby had closed in 1958. Beecing's axe would see the lines to Scarborough and the main line out of Whitby to York via Grosmont Junction & Pickering, (the latter becoming the North Yorkshire Moors Railway) would both close by the Doctor's axe in 1965.
Which left the line from Whitby-Grosmont Junction and it's branch to Battersby, where it met another branch from Middlesborough, all due for the axe but the quality of the roads in the area meant that buses would be unable to bring school kids into Whitby! And that's why the trains reverse at Battersby, they were originally two separate lines!
Great track that you've used for incidental music on this vlog!
Thanks for that info Mark!
Friends: "Why are you always busy at 8PM on a Tuesday?"
Me: "GLovesTrains posts!"
Haha love the loyalty!
@@GLovesTrains Its so true though!
Don’t forget Middlesbrough, it’s one of the great Yorkshire train stations!
Excellent video, G! Hope the rest of the Esk Valley line was a nice as this bit, because everywhere looked really lovely. It's always a good vlog when there's a monument on top of a hill for you to trek to!
Absolutely loved that walk, highlight of the day I think! Thanks barrowc!
I’m kind of lost tbh GLT as to where you’ve been and where you’re going but, no worries , I just enjoy your videos. I love your exploring the locality of each station .m
Just working my way along the esk valley line 👍
Great video G nice to see you travelling the Esk valley line don't forget to go on the North Yorkshire moors rly while your there when you get to whitby don't forget the 199 steps up to the Abbey its a great view from there ❤
I used to go to Whitby there when I was a lot younger with my family. It's a rather pretty part of the uk. I remember climbing all those 199 steps too but took a short break a few times half way up/down when I wanted to sit down on a bench a few mins with my family. We stayed in a big c.h.a house right next to the abbey there, but I think the house has since been demolished. I really enjoyed it back then though.
With G doing the esk valley on the trains in this video, this comment has left me wondering…. is there a train link that goes directly to whitby at all? If so.. where from and where to please? If it was possible for me, I wouldn't mind taking in the beautiful views of Whitby again some day, but going by train would feel quite special, unlike how I used to travel there by car with my family years ago.
The trains only used to go to Middlesbrough but some are now extended to Hexham. Sunny, happy video and a sunny happy young lady
@@littlemissie7978 train services run from Middlesbrough to Whitby
I'll have to go back for that 😂
On the Esk Valley, trains are more often than not doubled up to 4-cars during the summer, but generally only run as single 2-car units during the winter.
It's a beautiful part of the world ... and the trains go slowly so that you can savour the views!
Spent days walking across the hills along captain cooks monument and to Roseberry Topping which you had a shot of briefly! Very nice
That is indeed a very picturesque line, thanks for sharing it with us.
Well done Miss , Excellent Video and full of information , You look like you love doing this ya Videos are brilliant and I will always enjoy watching them, Kindest Regards and don't ever stop what you are doing , You bring such a lot of Joy to lots of people. Enjoy what you do and all the Best G .
G is a beautiful women she enjoys the trains and the vlogs are brilliant, good luck in everything she does the videos are excellent. Enjoy watching OK.
Thanks a lot!
Love to go ride on the Esk Valley Line. And to visit some amazing railway stations. Plus Northern wants 450 new trains to replace the existing diesel and electric trains since they now have the CAF Class 195 and Class 331 Civity units.
I love the Esk valley especially its terminus at Whitby
Great video G! Pretty stations and countryside. Pumpkin scarecrow scary but fun.
Haha yeah thought it was a person 😂
Hi G, Wow, Yorkshire & Humberside is so beautiful, the view from Captain Cooks Monument is like paradise, getting yourself lathered in sweat was well worth the effort!! These smaller stations are so quaint and you paint a pretty picture with your camera(s) and the joy and enthusiasm just tops everything off. looking forward to the next one. Stay safe
Thanks, it was deffo worth the sweat haha
Lovely to see these little countryside stations still open, giving access to, well, the countryside.
You make very good videos!
Thanks!
woo hoo - I live 5 miles away from Gt Ayton on the other side of Newton under Roseberry - its lovely here
Amazing!
@@GLovesTrains If you ever find yourself in Nunthorpe station you'll be fine - there is a SPAR shop right outside and ever of interest an actual manned signal box at the end of the platform PLUS be still my beating heart a level crossing - It has it all G.
Talking of pretty view , nice video Gloves Trains. ;)
Thanks!
Before I moved south, I planned to do this line for 2 years, and never managed it. I haven't done between Middlesborough and South Bank or Middlesborough and James Cook because I drove to Saltburn to do all stops back to South Bank, and then to Nunthorpe to go down to James Cook and back. But the fact this line gets (or at least got, the timetable may have changed since then) 4 trains a day, in peak times only except on sundays, I was always put off.
I have done Grosmont and Whitby, but on the NYMR. But as it's a section that's the mainline that the heritage trains run on, it counts for me ticking them off. Still, I want to do them on mainline trains too.
I think its 6 trains a day now, and deffo worth it!
you’re not missing much between Middlesbrough & South Bank.
Even though I don't live near this route, I've taken this route at least 7 times :)
Nice video.
Great vlog G. Some nice pretty In the middle of nowhere stations indeed. I enjoyed watching and I’m looking forward to seeing the next one.
Thanks Sam!
Brilliant video G, this is a line that I haven't been on yet but does look nice indeed. Don't think that 0458 doesn't run being honest as the 1st train is the 0548 to Carlisle.
Thanks Cyber, and yeah turned out to be the case which is a shame haha love an early start 😂
Fantastic video as always
Thanks for the video G, not much time to see your videos at the moment. Totally enjoyed this one, such a beautiful area to be!!😎🚃🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧💚
Thanks! Its so beautiful 😍
The trees with with creek was just so picturesque! 😎
Stopping over in Middlesbrough?? Brave girl lol. Another great video 🙂
Haha it wasn't too bad!
hi G really good video seen u in Whitby / Grosmont doing recording few months back keep up with good work hun x
Lovely video G , this is my favourite line , looking forward to see Grosmont and more. , The public footpath story, I think we all may have done that at sometime or another.😃
I live in southern Co Durham and that line is just down the road from me.Trains are often 4 car on the Whitby line I think because of the school as kids use it to go to school in Whitby.Kildale and Commondale don't have mobile phone reception but if you walk up the hill behind Commondale station it works.I use to go stargazing at Commondale but there's a terrible light pollution problem now with floodlights on a house west of the station.That other platform at Battersby is occasionally used by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to run locomotives around which specials go up there.
Nice one G and hey, a quick reappearance of your twin Sister.😅
A very good Tuesday evening gloves trains from Alan in Lowestoft and how are you today young lady ❤😊
Really enjoyed this! I travel on this line a lot down to Grosmont from Middlesbrough. Glad the weather stayed nice for you. Thanks for visiting the area and doing a video about this line! 😄
Thanks, it is a stunning line!
Nice vlog. I was travelled to Whitby when I did my great UK journey many years ago and in Whitby did I broke the law by climb outside a fence to walk over the Larpool viaduct, today is the viaduct open for walkers and cycles.
Great vid. I was on holiday in Whitby and ticked off all the stations between there and Nunthorpe. Did some walks between stations to fill the long waits. Loved Battersby and Commondale. Battersby because it felt like it used to be much more important, and Commondale because of the entrance through a field!
Great video, nice shot of 158815. Really like the Northern livery on the sprinters
Thanks!
❤C beautiful
Keep up the good work G 😊
Thanks!
Ooo, nice out and about again! Cheers G!
Love it there.
Great Ayton is well worth a visit , very scenic village green
Certainly does deserve it's name of the Pretty Line
Great video, G! What a lovely and picturesque line. I look forward to catching up with the rest of your videos on the line
The scenery in this series gets prettier and prettier 👍
There used to be a line from Battersby that continued westbound and joined the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line, passing through the delightfully named village of Sexhow, but that line closed to passengers in 1954
Haha I must visit! 😂 thanks Thornaby37!
Awesome. 🙂🙂
im loving all 3 lovely stations and the monument looks amazing & the scenery looks amazing in the sunshine awesome vlog & im looking forward to seeing the rest of the line
Thanks a lot!
Yes so good, this is a lovely part of the world, wait until you get to Grosmont....
Awesome Video G Loves Trains
Great vid as always!
Brilliant video G, the Esk Valley line does look pretty, I don't think I've heard of this line or any of the places on it before. Also I see the clone has been making a few apperances in this one lol.
Thanks Reuben!
Fantastic line great views G. last time I went down that line from Middlesbrough to whitby was on a 142 unit was a bit of a roller-coaster of a ride all the sharp bends in the track!! 🙄 Still well worth the trip tho, looking forward to rest of Vblog of this line cheers 👍🤗
Oh wow that would be quite the ride!
Looks like fun was had, great videos, thanks for sharing with us
Thanks!
Great video as always. Lovely line. I walked from Commondale to Castleton Moor station a few years back in the spring. So many cute lambs to see en route and the views are stunning.
Thanks! Really is stunning there!
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Well G, that was absolutely brilliant, I enjoyed it very much. I'm at work on the ship so your video really cheered me up. Loved that you could see the monument from the train. One of the great things I love about climbing hills is seeing a landmark like that and knowing that you have been up there and seen and touched it for yourself.
Love your enthusiasm and your joy in all that you do. You are a tonic. Don't ever change. Enjoy your time staying in Middlesborough and getting the rest of those lines done.
A tonic ee 😂 thanks Carl!
Sorry I missed your Tuesday post because my battery ran out, but I have watched it all now, and I love it!!! ❤
Thanks!
I really love your videos G, hopefully I get to see more of you & get to me you one day. Whether I come to the U.K to visit, or you & Lucy come to U.S to visit.❤❤❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🧡💛❤
Cracking video!
Thanks!
I have seen trains do a reverse move in Orange, New South Wales, Australia too. Orange is on a railway junction and the station was built on the northern track. So when the weekly Outback Xplorer from Sydney to Broken Hill runs there it has to go down the northern track to the platform, then reverse out back onto the eastern line so it can head to Broken Hill on the western line. By the way Orange is named after Prince William of Orange not because they grow a lot of oranges there.
What about upside down??
great one again as always how about doing ones down West Sussex from Gatwick to the coast and be on my favourite train the class 700 series the thameslink trains i love
Great vid G. Pity so few passengers. The sparse timetable makes it hard to visit all the stations but good plan to stay few days to do it!
Thanks a lot!
Great video as always, GLoves Trains. I made the return journey from Middlesbrough to Whitby last Saturday 5th August on a day interspersed with intense showers of rain, but the scenery was as good as ever. We were delayed at Glaisdale (you'll be featuring this station soon, obvs) because the line was flooded on the way to Whitby, but we soon got going. The River Esk by this stage was a muddy brown torrent😄
Haha sounds wonderful! Thanks 😊
Great scenery wonderful views love the video, who's face was at the window I asked myself XX 👍👍✅✅
It's the ghost of Gladys Durchdenwald von Smith.
She was a part-time seamstress and highway robber, She was stampeded by a group of annoyed Heffers in 1807.
My clone haha!
Great video!
Thanks!
@@GLovesTrains np
Great video as always! Really sorry you had to stay over in Boro though
Haha thanks it wasn't too bad 😂
I really like the railway the video of the esk valley. Looks like there's some very pretty countryside views around there which is something I'd love to see for myself in some way one day.
It seems like you're not very far from a lovely place called Whitby there either. I used to travel there with my family (by car) when I was a lot younger. I'm in my 30s now.
I wouldn't mind a trip back there by train one day if I knew where the trains went from. But the bbc news on our tv is constantly filling my head with train strikes, I feel very confused whether or not there are still any trains running at all. :-/
Yet here you are, still making these brilliant and fascinating videos, and I'm just sat here watching, wondering (and wishing to myself) if I'll ever get to do a train journey despite these bothersome news programmes on the train strikes. *Sigh. *
You're making lots of lovely videos, I've been sat watching most of them but not really commenting for most of them. You do a brilliant job though, so long may it continue.☺️
Thanks a lot! The trains I catch in these vlogs run to Whitby, you can catch them from Middlesbrough 👍
@@GLovesTrains Thank you for the very helpful comment G. ☺️ Middlesbrough is a fair distance to travel. It maybe part of North Yorkshire where you made this video along the Esk Valley. Hopefully one day for me.
Thank you again, and happy vlogging.☺️☺️
Did you have a great thyme making this vlog? I like the way you always pepper what you're doing with sage advice. Looking at your list of patrons I reckon you must be minted.
Wonderful scenery, great walks and a sunny day. Is this the third time in a row I have seen the same knickers on your head?
My Yorkshire and Humber blue knickers 👍
The one platform stations reminded me, have you ever been to Entwistle station and walked around the reservoir there?
Yup! Can't remember what day it was but its in my North West series 😂
Not far from Roseberry Topping there. I walked from Great Ayton to Commondale when I did Roseberry Topping.
Yet another great video as always and do you have sunglasses for your eye protection🚃
Nice one G! Have you been on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway? Because that’s part of the Esk Valley Line.
Not yet ill have go back 😂
Where did you stay in Middlesbrough? I used the Holiday Inn Express on Albert Road, near MIMA. It was good, but quite a bit more expensive than the one in Bradford.
I think the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough is still closed, pity as it could have given you an unusual ride on rails.
Middlesbrough - Whitby really does need a better service.
You didn’t mention the water column on the platform at Battersby.
Didn't notice it 😂. Stayed at Premier Inn my fave
@@GLovesTrains
I wonder if the scaffolding was covering the water column for some sort of maintenance; it would be difficult to not notice something that size otherwise.
I stayed at Holiday inn express in Middlesbrough a few years ago with a friend. It's a nice hotel and we got a cheap room (probably because it was february). I love premier inn too! 🙂👍
You’ve missed Middlesbrough and the other North Yorkshire stations up to Great Ayton!
I've not missed anything
Ahh the one I’ve been waiting for my home line, knowing how sparse the service is I’m intrigued how you’ll complete the whole line
Sparse service but well worth riding
Trains Station 🚉
How come you comment on all her videos trains station
I knew it would be Battersby before I even clicked 😂
Who wants Nick Badley in his next video to sing. When you’re at ……….. you put your pants upon your head, you put your pants upon your head, you put your pants upon your head, when you’re at …….. you put your pants upon your head, and you shout squishy 🙉
Interesting videobomber at one of your stops.
If you need a signature tune for your channel,....how about St. Cecilia on You Tube with their song....''Leap Up And Down......and ?'' 😆😆 🤣🤣 😂😂
Lovely video, but there is one obvious question - why would you choose to stay in Middlesbrough? :-)
hi , g
Hi
Really pretty line but cobbled together from lots of lines that were much larger and more spread out. It's a shame they've been lost permanently.
Its just a shame it starts off in a Dump
I can tell you it's not always a 158 but 158s do go to Whitby
Nice video
Can you do one of these videos barefoot please or at least take your shoes and socks off for a little bit
If only you could smell my feet... you'd delete that channel.