The Thirsk and Malton railway line.

[@menkin1]

Thank you very much, I enjoyed your journey.

[@robinwatling6538]

thanks very enjoyable

[@MikeJones-zt3kb]

Thanks again for your time and discripiptive commentary, we enjoyed the area so much over the years, and you have inspired many future walks. Take care Mike Jones and family, Abergele, North Wales

[@DB2hull]

Thank you for sharing your walk and historical docuentation. I have ancestors that came from old malton and i would like to visit the area from Hull, sometime.

[@tonystack7375]

Before the Malton bypass was built you could see this line as it crossed the river on the Scarborough road.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

There was also a York facing junction on the ECML.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

There were points at both the east and west ends of Gilling station which replaced the need for any points at Parliamentary Junction where the individual lines split. It did save a bit of money. Many railways were built as single track lines although the company had bought enough land for a double track line. This was done because the company was not certain about the expected income and chose to build a single track line instead of a double track line. If the line proved to be more economic than expected the railway company be able to double the line with ease.

[@robertbest8591]

LNER buildings have overhang roofs which are seen in many of the pictures

[@wharpblast264]

How did trains get to Thirsk, as Thirsk is on a branch from the west ?

[@richardellingworth4484]

As I understand it Thirsk was (and still is) on the East Coast Main Line. This heads south east from Thirsk towards York, but before long it passes through what used to be a series of junctions - Sessay Wood Junction, and Bishophouse Junction, and another junction is just to the east of this point - Sunbeck Junction. Not quite sure about the layout. I think Sessay Wood junction provided access to the Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway (heading off south west), and Bishophouse Junction provided access, via Sunbeck Junction, to the Thirsk and Malton line (heading off north east). Trains leaving Malton would head west north west, passing through Amotherby, Barton le Street, Slingsby, Hovingham Spa, Gilling, Ampleforth, Coxwold, and Husthwaite Gate, before joining the East Coast Main Line shortly after Sunbeck Junction, and heading on to Thirsk. The East Coast Main Line was known as the York, Newcastle and Berwick line when the Thirsk and Malton line was opened, in 1853. The name "Thirsk and Malton" does seem a little arbitrary since Thirsk isn't, strictly speaking, on the line. I didn't cover the stretch between Gilling and the East Coast Main Line in this particular video because I had already done this in my video covering the Gilling and Pickering line. I may have got some of this wrong. If so, somebody let me know.

[@wharpblast264]

@@richardellingworth4484 I was looking at old maps not realising Thirsk Town station had closed to passengers in 1855. So that Thirsk Junction on the main line became the passenger station serving Thirsk from that time. The railway is intended as a "junction" railway connecting other lines rather than one designed to serve the local area.

[@marksmith334]

Didn’t they come from Knaresborough direction via Goldthorpe etc ?