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    The Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) was built to halt the gradual decline of the port of Whitby on the east coast of England. Its basic industries—whaling...
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    York Moors National Park. First opened in 1836 as the Whitby and Pickering Railway, the railway was planned in 1831 by George Stephenson as a means of...
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    platform, in the form of the offices, workshop and carriage shed of the Whitby and Pickering Railway; a single track horse worked line opened throughout...
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    Pickering railway station is the southern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. The...
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    Yorkshire Moors Railway. The Whitby and Pickering Railway was a horse-worked line engineered by George Stephenson, which opened between Whitby and Grosmont in...
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    Vale of Pickering to the south. Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Beck Isle...
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    opened in June 1835, as the initial section of the Whitby and Pickering Railway between Whitby and Grosmont. The station first appears in a timetable...
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    Beckhole railway station was a railway station at Beck Hole in the North Yorkshire Moors on part of the original Whitby and Pickering Railway line. Although...
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    Newton Dale to Pickering, but was not pursued. A railway connection from Whitby was considered in the 1820s, with lines either to Pickering or Stockton via...
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    "lodging-houses" and hotels, particularly on the West Cliff. In 1839, the Whitby and Pickering Railway connecting Whitby to Pickering and eventually to York...
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    was on the initial 6.5-mile (10.5 km) section of the Whitby and Pickering Railway between Whitby and Grosmont. Originally just a simple halt, it opened...
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    Beckhole Incline (category Railway inclines in the United Kingdom)
    the railway line between Whitby and Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Opened in May 1836 as part of the horse-worked Whitby & Pickering...
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    Goathland Incline) was opened with the opening throughout of the Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) on Thursday 26 May 1836. The station closed with the opening...
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    Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line...
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    The railway serving Levisham Station was originally opened by the Whitby and Pickering Railway in 1836. The W&P was an isolated horse worked railway engineered...
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    The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was a railway line from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The line followed a difficult but scenic route...
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    Mine re-opened in the 1970s. Whitby had been connected to the national rail system by the Whitby and Pickering Railway since the 1830s. Loftus was connected...
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    the Whitby and Pickering Railway reached Grosmont in 1835, with shipping of ironstone from Grosmont, via the railway, then ship from Whitby harbour, in 1836...
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    a route to Pickering in 1832 and the Whitby and Pickering Railway Act 1833 received royal assent on 6 May 1833, which both permitted and prohibited steam...
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    national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line. In 2015, it had an...
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    Midland Railway (Y&NM) company in 1847 when they converted the Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) from horse to steam locomotive operation, (the line had...
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    Grosmont Tunnel (category Railway tunnels in England)
    structure built by the Whitby & Pickering Railway (W&P) that is under the care of the NYMR. The first tunnel was started in 1834 and completed in 1835. It...
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    the CN freight tracks and can be reached by a pedestrian bridge. The Whitby Junction Station was built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1903, at the foot...
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    Ajax, Ontario, and there are regional centres in Ajax, Whitby, and Oshawa. DRT was formed by the merger of Ajax/Pickering Transit, Whitby Transit, Oshawa...
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    North Eastern Railway in 1865 to avoid the cable-worked Beckhole Incline, which was part of the original 1836 Whitby and Pickering Railway route. It was...
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    in northeastern England: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington. The original name of "Whitby" is Danish, dating from about 867 AD when the...
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    separate former railway lines: The first section of line between Whitby Town and Grosmont opened in 1835, with an extension to Pickering opening on 26 May...
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  • Y&NMR in 1844 Whitby and Pickering Railway incorporated 1833, amalgamated with Y&NMR in 1845 East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway incorporated 1846...
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  • Frederick Swanwick (category Scottish railway mechanical engineers)
    Swannington Railway in 1832. Following this, Stephenson delegated to him the entire work of building the horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway, which opened...
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    Wells and Woodsgate Roads Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. lxiv) Manchester and Leeds Railway Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. cxi) Whitby and Pickering Railway Act...
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