Paperlad Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) As an aside, a mile or so walk along the Cleveland Way (south from Ravenscar) is a disused WWII radar station that's well worth a mooch around. I seem to remember that it's owned by the National Trust (or summat) and was originally built to observe shipping in the interwar years. Whatever your interest, it's a spectacular part of the U.K. The 'spotter' with the bald head n 'noculars is me! Edited March 27, 2019 by Paperlad 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted April 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2019 I visited that site a couple of years ago. Fascinating :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted April 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) After a lot of digging (no pun intended) to try and get details, here is a snowplough operation in the winter of 1947, which has a fair number of photos on the 'net. Here's one thread https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/operation-snow-storm.1106870/ Scarborough end Plough 22/900576 J39 4818 J24 5615 Plough 21/900575 Whitby end Edited April 4, 2019 by MarkC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faulcon1 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Ravenscar was originally named Peak, but a London property developer bought the place and decided it needed a far better name and so he renamed it Ravenscar. He had big plans for Ravenscar as he saw it as a large town to rival Scarborough. But Ravenscar had an insurmountable problem. The Victorians liked to be beside the sea and although people were given the impression that Ravenscar was beside the sea it is actually six hundred feet above it. Even the railway company got in on the act to extol the virtues of Ravenscar producing an advertisement showing it was an easy stroll from Ravenscar to the sandy beach. A complete lie. One of Ravenscar's residents has a plan of how big and grand Ravenscar was to have become. People even put a deposit of one pound sixteen shillings on a plot of land. Roads were built, curbs put in with drains but it all came to nearly nothing. Fewer than fifty houses were actually built. Some say the developer absconded with all the deposits. But whatever happened Ravenscar has remained a village to this day. Edited August 9, 2019 by faulcon1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted August 10, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2019 Certainly getting to the beach from Ravenscar is a hazardous and lengthy expedition to this day, and returning even more so [before the tide comes in] owing to coastal erosion. Robin Hood's Bay is safer and much pleasanter, with the old station, old bookshops and several cafes to ease the climb. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted August 10, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2019 There is a map of the proposed development of ravenscar in the raven hall hotel. The roads were all named and a lot of the plots sold. I would have thought if it had actually been built there would have been at least one cliff lift Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 10, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2019 There doesn't seem to be any way down other than a scramble. Details of the site on this page. https://www.thetownthatneverwas.co.uk/walk The site also has a copy of the plot drawing overlaid on Google Earth, but take care that they don't try to sell you a plot. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted March 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) There have been some great photos in the "Scarborough & Whitby Railway" Facebook Group recently. I'll put up more details in due course, but there is a great view of the train hauled by D352 which shows the coaches quite well - and was a 6 coach train, which is of interest in itself. Usual rule was 5 coaches for 1 locomotive, and 8 for double-headers (loop restriction on the latter), but the extra vehicle could be allowed, I suppose, given that D352 had potentially 2000 of EE's finest horses to unleash! The other interesting diesel photo was a Class 124 Trans Pennine set, again heading south. This one was a real surprise. Finally, there are a couple of shots of a Malton based J27 with a pickup goods. This one also surprised me, as I thought that J27s were too heavy for the line. Still, there it is. I'll edit this post and add the number when I look again at the photos. It was 65849, southbound working, on 2nd November 1959, according to the info posted. As always, all contributions to this thread are welcome Mark Edited March 4, 2020 by MarkC More info 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I walked several sections of this line, when we had our holiday cottage in Whitby in the 90s and early 2000s. Very dramatic route, although I’ve never quite worked out how it accessed the Sandsend viaduct from the Whitby side. Whitby has a cliff lift, with a tunnel entrance from the promenade so I suppose Ravenscar might have been the same? Odd place today, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted June 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2023 (edited) Reopening this thread, I now have the following locomotive/railcar/DMU types which we know ran on the line at some point. Some only once, it has to be said, but it may be of interest:- Contractors' locomotives Fox, Walker 0-6-0T 12" Barclay 0-4-0T NER Class 1001 Class A (later F8) Class D (later H1) Class O (later G5) Class BTP (later G6) Class W (original & rebuilt - later A6) Class P (Later J24) Class P1 (Later J25) Petrol Railcar Class X3 (I think) on Inspection train Petrol inspection saloon LNER Class V1 Class V3 Class J39 (very restricted use) Class D17/2 Class D20 Class D49 Class A5/2 Class A8 Class B1 Sentinel steam railcar Clayton steam railcar BR (including ex LMS locomotives after nationalisation, and LNER locomotives only known to have run on the line after nationalisation) Class L1 Class K1 Class K4 (only on last day special) Class J27 Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 Ivatt Class 4 2-6-0 Stanier 2-6-4T (2-cylinder design) Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 Fairburn 2-6-4T BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T BR Standard Class 3 2-6-0 BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 Derby Lightweight DMU Met-Camm Class 101 DMU BRCW Class 104 DMU Cravens Class 105 DMU BR Derby Class 108 DMU BRCW Class 110 DMU BR Trans-Pennine Class 124 DMU EE Type 4 (later Class 40) BR Drewry 0-6-0 shunter Please feel free to add to the list. Thank you. Mark Edited December 15, 2023 by MarkC To add something 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted June 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2023 I cycled this line, staying at Ravenscar and doing Scarborough then Whitby and back over two days. Lovely but the pull back to the summit from Whitby past the old mines is a long climb. It is much more woods than when the line was open. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 On 07/06/2020 at 17:28, rockershovel said: I walked several sections of this line, when we had our holiday cottage in Whitby in the 90s and early 2000s. Very dramatic route, although I’ve never quite worked out how it accessed the Sandsend viaduct from the Whitby side. Whitby has a cliff lift, with a tunnel entrance from the promenade so I suppose Ravenscar might have been the same? Odd place today, though. We used to holiday in Sandsend many years ago. There were two viaducts in Sandsend and the site of the southern one has been changed a fair bit, even more so recently as they’ve realigned the road south of Sandsend and re-profiled the cliff above the road to improve drainage. This link shows it quite well https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/04/21/6d04218f7c989c416298fe5eb40dfca3.jpg The north end is now built over by housing I think. Interesting that the kiosk/cafe beneath the viaduct is still there, though much changed. We used to walk along the path north of the station, which i loved as a child. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted December 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) I've added Class D20, Class D17/2 and BRCW Class 104 DMUs to the list above. Mark Edited December 15, 2023 by MarkC To add something Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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