On a lovely summers day we set out for the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. Our intention was to walk the Rail Trail from Grosmont to Goathland which follows George Stephenson's original railway line of 1836. After walking to Goathland our plan was to take the train back to Grosmont.
With a total steam ban in place on mainline charters throughout Yorkshire this would be an opportunity to photograph and video steam trains in action.
Our day began at Levisham station as we called in to see the Grosmont Pickering trains cross at 11:20.
Afterwards we moved on to Grosmont for lunch and to see what was going on at this busy station on a normal operating Monday in August.
After lunch we walked along the Rail Trail to Goathland a distance of about 3 miles. We had a coffee from the “Tea Shop” at Goathland before taking the train back to Grosmont.
The locomotives featured in the video are:
45428 - Eric Treacy
75029 - BR Standard 4
37264 - EE Class 37 (Diesel)
61264 - LNER B1 (as 61034 Chiru)
A video
of our day out to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway which we attended so we
could travel on the steam trains at their 40 anniversary gala on 10 May 2013.
The
footage features not only the locomotives we travelled behind but some of the
scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors in late spring.
We
start with some shots at Pickering station of NER design class J72 0-6-0T
locomotive number 69023 “Joem” bringing in and running around the Great Western
Saloon carriage to operate a shuttle service to Levisham.
Meanwhile
LNER A4 class Pacific 60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley" arrives with a service from Grosmont and runs
around its train ready to operate the next service to Grosmont. This
is the train we catch to Goathland where we break our journey and have lunch. We
pass LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' at Levisham
where our train pauses in the station before departing for Grosmont.
At
Goathland we get some footage of 60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley” leaving for
Grosmont and after lunch we see LNER class B1 4-6-0 61264 renumbered and named
as 61002 Impala double heading with 60007
"Sir Nigel Gresley" arriving
at Goathland. We
see our train 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' arrive at Goathland before we get
on board for our journey to Whitby.
At
Whitby 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' pushes its train out of the station to
perform its run around the train before re-entering the station. We decided to
catch this train back to Grosmont and spend an hour at this station.
At
Goathland our day went pear shaped with the cancellation of a train to
Pickering. As the previous train to Pickering had been diesel hauled we decided
on an extra hour at Grosmont to take advantage of the next steam hauled train.
This was not to be and left us with a further 2 hours wait at Grosmont.
In
the end we travelled back to Whitby again with 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' very
disappointingly this service was then diesel hauled all the way back from
Whitby to Pickering. This wasn't the end to the day out we had hoped for.
Featured first at Levisham Station are Black 5 45428 Eric Treacy and 9F 92214 Cock O' The North.
45428 Eric Treacy arriving at Levisham
9F 92214 Cock O' The North at Levisham
Then moving to Goathland Station to capture Ex Southern Region Class S15 Maunsell 4-6-0 and Black 5 45428 Eric Treacy on a return run from Pickering.
Ex Southern Region Class S15 Maunsell 4-6-0 at Goathland Station
0-6-2 N2 1744 and 0-6-2 N7 69621 were captured heading to Goathland and 9F 92214 Cock O' The North on a return journey to Pickering from the road leading over Mill Moor.
0-6-2 N2 1744 and 0-6-2 N7 69621
9F 92214 Cock O' The North
It was then back to Goathland to watch Class 4MT 4-6-0 75069 The Green Knight on a Pickering bound train and 9F 92214 Cock O' The North heading to Grosmont.
Class 4MT 4-6-0 75069 The Green Knight at Goathland
Finally back to Mill Moor in time for 9F 92214 Cock O' The North and Ex Southern Region Class S15 Maunsell 4-6-0 both making return journeys.
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