Campaign for Malton-Pickering reopening to allow services to Whitby

[johnnychips]

Whitby's got more class, population, industry, less retirees in caravans, speciality, than any of those places.

Sorry, as I do like Mablethorpe, but I think the Sand Train is the excellent height of its railway ambitions.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You may be restraining your laughter, but wouldn't the Lincolnshire coast route have had a better chance of survival if it had taken in the Mablethorpe loop as part of a basic railway, rather then the more direct line ?

You may well be right in what you say, but ask yourself why, in those far-off days, the direct line was seen as more of an essential transport linkage to the larger rail network at large rather than an adjunct to the Mablethorpe loop line.

 

[JohnCarlson]

So we have a thread asking for a reinstatement of a missing route link to just one small-ish coastal resort. Let us expand matters and look to the area on the Lincolnshire coast between Cleethorpes and Skegness where another similar "fantasy" route reinstatement could aid no less than FIVE small-ish coastal resorts.

I refer you to a similar timed British Rail route closure similar to to that of the discussion of this thread between Louth and Boston, on the line from Grimsby, that was formerly known as the Mablethorpe Loop Line, that would serve:-
Grimoldby
Saltfleetby
Theddlethorpe All Saints
Mablethorpe
Sutton-on-Sea

Posting made "tongue-in-cheek", whilst restraining laughter..

Well know nothing about this like other than what is on the Wikipedia site. I must admit most of the UK is unexplored territory to me as I like my foreign travel.

Well if you can find an argument for it that's great. However its not a similar to Whitby York as in that case most of the track is still there.

A line that I wish had survived and just caught the very end of was the Marsden Rattler.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/marsden/index.shtml


Would have been a major tourist attraction.


Interestingly the Marsden Rattler pub is actually built on top of a former Tyne Improvement Commission Railway which is one of the few standard gauge lines in the UK never to be connected to the national network.

Not a lot of people know that.

 

[johnnychips]

Much as I like Mablethorpe, it is really small! And there's nothing to do. At least the Whitby train bans alcohol on its last run back in summer.

 

[JohnCarlson]

For this gem, I hereby award you the title of the writer of the most amusing simile clarification in 2012...

Hey if you are transporting two small prone to vomiting children then there is a big and very real difference between a bus and a train.

:razz:

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hey if you are transporting two small prone to vomiting children then there is a big and very real difference between a bus and a train.

:razz:

Or possibly even worse in a small sized family car....:roll:

 

[JohnCarlson]

Or possibly even worse in a small sized family car....:roll:

Well if you pushed them along in a handcart I am sure they would love that.

 

[reb0118]

This might be interesting to some here.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This might be interesting to some here.

Three services each way during the week. One service each way on Sundays.

Will all the named railway stations be re-opening as well, fully-staffed ?l