Steaming Over the North Yorkshire Moors: History of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

by Robin Jones

Author Robin Jones tells the full story of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway: its beginnings in 1836 as the Whitby & Pickering Railway, its conversion to a steam railway, its years under the London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways, and its closure by Dr Beeching - with the accompanying protests. The line would later be saved by volunteers and reopened step by step. Eventually services were extended back over the main line to Whitby. Today...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911658646
• ISBN13: 9781911658641
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Gresley
• Length: 144 Pages