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North east coast of the uk we are in northeast yorkshire on Every Disused station number it's not
number 30 or 31 mid-september beautiful sky when we came here we decided to either do scarborough
to whitby or whitby up to sort of loftus and middlesbrough and on that way we decided upon
the latter we didn't have time to do both because we basically have got a few other plans up here
so we are today on every disused station along the um oh what's it called whitby Redcar middlesbrough
or Whitby Middlebrough, redcar union railway. Whitby is gorgeous this little trip was filmed
in the late summer and owing to everybody rushing to get their holidays in we could only
get hotel books in middlesbrough so this heavily influenced our decision to cover this line instead
of the whitby scarborough southern route before we started to tell the story of the lost railway here
we took a trip into the famous town and the 199 steps well at least the cobble road just next to
them you really wouldn't want to try walking on this in the rain today of course is about
the railway they're headed north whitby itself is still served by a railway from the southwest which
winds its way along the esk valley prior to 1958 however you could have caught a train from here
and headed north along the beautiful coastline you'd have travelled south for 500 yards under the
stunning larpol violet before heading up and north through west cliff the first station on the line
now long for gone you join us back at the sands and beach about to start our walk northwards
Straight away one of crying shames about this route we're walking on today is the fact that it's
not here and yeah we always, say we're not sort of living this little life we live with rose tinted
glasses but um this really would have been a spectacular i grew up holidaying in devon with the
the railway along the coast and it was beautiful that's kind of what got me in the trains
and just looking at the scenery around us now makes you really sort of disappointed there isn't
a beautiful line running across the landscape here now so this is one of four viaducts that have
been destroyed uh no longer i don't i can't remember the name of this i want to say new
something new home or something like that yeah but there were four here you can't see anything
of any of them apart from the sort of the abutments like this one here yeah so next
up is sandsend station um and then we're gonna head on and we're gonna walk around some of the
coastline
we decided we will park up here in sandsend almost immediately below the
actual station itself you can walk along the coastline here to the north for miles
another viaduct spanned the coastline here just as it came into the station on the south side
samson station is now privately owned and they are in the process of having a couple of coaches put
here to use as holiday homes it should be made very clear at this point whilst i'm doing some
overlay that the whitewicks are available to come to your holiday home your b&b, your cottage or
any railway related themed accommodation and do a review or video on said topic
so we just left sandsend station in the background there and you might better see it but right on the
horizon there is whitby abbey whitby abbey and between whitby abbey which is like i say just
there like two miles away there was four viaducts and that's all really epitomised this line
yeah just we keep stopping we keep minutes to talk and do a little bit history and stuff but every
like every two minutes there's people also which is which is good also every two minutes we get a
little um little snippet of the view look at my bum some of you could have won this by now
this is true this is cool one of these yeah it probably is if this video is it's like
something but somebody could have won it it's true or similar not my bum obviously i mean the jumper
right so where were we we're talking about seriousness it's not messing around whoa
so bit windy forgive the wind we're on the coast so you know what to expect history of the line
ready yeah right so the contractor built this line or at least the engineer the guy that sold it to
the to the company to the shareholders he was very much um known for over exaggerating what could be
done and again four big viaducts in the background over a free mile stretch and the landscape we're
on right now this is the first time we haven't been on the edge of a cliff right yes we've got
a bit of cliff there you can see but again that highlights what um the landscape they came across
yes so in 1866 this line was first conceived and it was all good little did they realize
that it was going to take another 20 years for them to build it so that was for a number of
reasons partly and largely because this guy this contractor this engineer was always sort of over
exaggerating how easy it was to do certain things after having first been conceived 1866 with one
tunnel come the early 1870s they decided actually they need a deviation act it was called wasn't it
and the deviation act um was applied for and it was obtained and that deviation act was to include
six more tunnels um including the original green cool tunnel which is a plan to be a lot longer
then so we're now walking up to the first tunnel which will be part of another video as we say
and then we're going to head on up the line even further
right it's a bit windy bit witness just down here because i've got a small theory
we've just walked over the top of the two tunnels right come down out the wind
well hopefully you can hear us but in that direction there um is kettleness station you
go around the curve around the coastline and probably what half a mile in that direction
I think what we're in now that there goes over a cliff edge but it's a deliberate cutting I wonder
if this was the original alignment which went much lower i was saying much though a little bit lower
around the coastline because it's clearly cut out and it's an obvious embankment this side it's all
good kettleness tunnel is over the other side of that embankment so if we'll show you what we mean
so the the whitby red car middlesbrough union railway had almost been led up the
garden path by this guy and essentially they had to seek the help of northeastern railway
come the early or the mid 1870s and it wasn't built in complete until i think it was 1883
and the chief engineer of northeastern railway felt he needed to explain himself and explain
the actions of why this took so long to build and he basically said the original plans were just a
complete mess none of the tunnels were aligned they wouldn't have made you know in terms of the
hills in terms of the landscape and the geography um largely because of all the random tunnels that
they were building right on the edge of the the cliff and again that's something we're going to
explore in the next video but northwestern railway came to the rescue and they spent
over 350 000 pounds which meant that over 600 000 pounds in total had been used to build this line
guys are you joining us back on the windy on the windy windy trail um we're heading now for
kettleness if you can hear us we're not far from castles the alignment of the railway is just
to our left where it's come out now the coastal route um of the sandstone and kevin has tunnels um
and it's taking a sweeping curve inland i say inland so we've been curving towards inland um
the bark had the beautiful ketones station we believe which will get there very shortly
oh my god it's so windy that's an understatement there's so much we wanted to say and talk about
on the way so much we have to tell you about this line and bits and pieces and we've just
seen the beautiful kettleness well where we go next remember what we've got next on the list
on so we have done westcliff now westcliff whitbey west cliff would be whitby westlife was called
Beeching News which i think is utterly ridiculous because it was closed in what nineteen sixty one,
west cliff was closed in that was before Beeching, before Beeching the line was generally about 58
wasn't it yes so why would they call it Beeching Mews like a bit of originality people because it
just assumes that everything was Beeching on the railways but it wasn't it wasn't anyway sorry
yeah we've kind of covered the viaducts uh we've covered sandsend station
we've done kettleness station, Next up Hinderwell....
um right right behind us is staithes station we're almost on the alignment now
of the viaducts staithes viaduct and you can see the abutments over there
in the distance um we're thinking it's like an information board ready that's not the information
board we're looking for because that's there i'm guessing it's that one down there the harbour
stays viaduct was 152 feet high yep iron concrete huge great um about 760 feet long
yeah massive great um it's real shame it got taken down isn't it really because
it is but it was it always used to get closed in high winds so right now it just could be closed
good point so they weren't allowed to go over it in 20 mile winds but they
reckon they break that wall launch no they're only allowed to drive over it in 20 minutes
above kind of any wind really this is also not the information board you're looking for but
where is it so we wanted to tell you all about this this wonderful viaduct that was here huge
great construction really picturesque beautiful thing um but we're going to do it next to the
information board it'll be a little bit you know here's the information board check this out but
we can't do it because there is no information board that we can see somewhere hey come to the
side because you can't get to the other side there's no public access to the other side
right if there was a plaque like here
it would tell you all about the viaducts because it's quite a funky little story really isn't it,
well we've got a couple more stations to tick off i think they might be on the main line
so they might be like drive-bys but um we'll go and have a look and see if we can see anything
else well how are we going to get out of here because it's like a little maze, don't follow me