North Yorkshire Moors Railway - Early Summer 2015

The main part of my holiday to Yorkshire was to visit one of my favorite heritage lines, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, running 18 miles from Pickering through the moors to Grosmont and continues for another 6 miles towards the coast for Whitby. Sadly however this visit was at a time the railway was suffering with a steam locomotive shortage as 6 engines in the running fleet were out for repairs, so some diesel traction had to be used to keep the trains running with some minor timetable alterations on Thursdays. No matter as the visit was still a very enjoyable one with plenty to see and do along the railway.

Locomotives in action during my visit -
|BR 4-6-0 4MT Class no 75029 'The Green Knight'
|BR 2-6-0 4MT Class no 76079
|BR Class 37 37264
|BR Class 25 D7628 'Sybilla'

I visited the railway over 4 days (Monday 29th June - Thursday 2nd July) with 3 of the days spent linesiding while 1 day was used to just enjoy a trip along the railway. The weather was stunning over the course of the week due to a heat wave which resulted in clear blue skies and light wind.

I highly recommend this railway for a day out, it is a absolute beautiful line with such stunning views of the moors and really friendly staff and volunteers. I was also generally impressed with how well the railway coped with the locomotive shortage. This is possibly my last holiday to North Yorkshire for quite some time, so I wanted to get as much out of my visit as possible, hence the 30 minute long video :P

The locomotives feature at the following locations -
75029: Grosmont, Beck Hole, Goathland, Moorgates, New Bridge and Darnholme Bridge
76079: Sleights, Grosmont, Water Ark, Darnholme, Moorgates and Pickering
37264: Darnholme Bridge and Goathland
D7628: Grosmont