Scarborough and Whitby Railway

Scarborough and Whitby Railway

Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

[ ] Scarborough and Whitby Railway

WRMU Railwayto Sandsend Whitby West Cliff Whitby Town Prospect Hill Junction Bog Hall Junction Esk Valley Lineto Ruswarp Larpool Viaduct(Over River Esk) Hawsker A171 road Robin Hood's Bay Fyling Hall Ravenscar Tunnel Ravenscar Staintondale Hayburn Wyke Cloughton Scalby Scalby Viaduct(Over Scalby Beck) Gallows Close goods yard Falsgrave Tunnel Scarborough Central Scarborough Londesborough Road Falsgrave Junction York to Scarborough Lineto Seamer

The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was a railway line from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The line followed a difficult but scenic route along the North Yorkshire coast.

The line opened in 1885. It closed in 1965 (see Beeching Axe).

Before the line's construction, several schemes had been proposed that would have resulted in a line between Scarborough and Whitby: the Scarborough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees and Newcastle and North Junction Railway, from , via Guisborough to Whitby and then Scarborough was registered in 1845. Another scheme, the Scarborough, Whitby and Staithes Railway, would connect to the Cleveland Railway near Skinningrove, connecting the towns of the Yorkshire coast, and of North Yorkshire; the line was opposed by the North Eastern Railway (NER), who were improving the Esk Valley Line, the line failed to be given assent in the 1864 session of Parliament.

There were other lines promoted to connect along the north coast of Yorkshire between Scarborough and Whitby, including the Scarborough and Whitby Railway Company which issued a prospectus in late 1864. The company placed a bill in parliament, aiming to raise £275,000 capital plus £91,600 in loans, the bill was not opposed in parliament, and was passed at the third reading in April 1865. The line was to be 19¼ miles long, and pass Scalby, Burniston, Cloughton, Stainton-dale, Robin Hood's Bay and Hawsker between Scarborough and Whitby. The line sanctioned by the 1865 act was not built due to lack of finance.

In October 1865 the NER opened a line between Castleton and Grosmont completing a route between Scarborough, Whitby and the ports of the north-east via the North York Moors, it had also completed improvement works in July, allowing express trains to travel between the two coastal towns in one and a half hours. The NER ran twice-daily express trains over this route, but the service was not profitable, and was withdrawn.

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