Signalling Record Society

Some Items in Moors Line

Moors Line is the Journal of the North Yorkshire Moors Historical Railway Trust. Follow this link to visit their web site.

Issue	Items
2008 Spring	‘Reminiscences of NYMR railway cottages’ by Maurice Baker (following on from Graham Reussner’s article in Moors Line Winter 2007/8 (No 157) - see Recent Articles, May 2008 - this article recalls life in the cottages at Farwath and Fen Bog, together with details of other cottages between Rillington Junction and Whitby; 5 b&w photos).
Issue	Items
2007 Winter	‘Railway cottages on the Whitby branch - Pt1: Background’ by Graham Reussner (introduction to the railway built and owned lineside cottages from Rillington Junction to Whitby Town (in 1875 the NER recorded no less than 96 separate dwellings on this section), detailing those built for the Whitby & Pickering and York & North Midland Railways. Colour photos depicting Ash Tree cottage, Incline Top and Marishes Road Crossing Keeper’s cottage.
2007 Autumn	‘Regulations v Indignation’ by Tamsyn Naylor (problems with delays to road traffic at Grosmont level crossing in 1883/4; b&w view of the crossing in 1905).
2007 Summer	‘The Goathland Cabin Skeleton Order Book’ by Leslie Smith (examines an original NER document, one of a type supplied to various locations for Standing Orders, etc to be pasted in and retained for future reference; this example comes from Goathland Signal Box and covers the period from 1916 to the 1950s; some of the more interesting items are summarised, with facsimile reproductions of two pages).