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

by Robin Jones

Steaming Over the North Yorkshire Moors is the story of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, a pinnacle of the rail preservation movement. Author Robin Jones, editor of Heritage Railway magazine, tells the story of how the line began in 1836 as Rocket inventor George Stephenson's Whitby & Pickering Railway, its conversion to a steam railway and its years under the London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways before its closure by Dr Beeching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911658646
• ISBN13: 9781911658641
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Gresley
• Length: 144 Pages