Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

Legend Stockton & Darlington Railway Middlesbrough WRMU Railway to Redcar James Cook Marton(formerly Ormesby) 1854–0000 Gypsy Lane Nunthorpe 1854–0000 Nunthorpe-Battersby Link to Battersby Pinchinthorpe 1854–1951 Hutton Gate 1854–1964 Hutton Junction 1878–1890 Codhill Mine 1855–1865 Link to Cleveland Railway 1878–1960 Cleveland Railway north 1861–1873 Guisborough 1854–1964 Cleveland Railway east 1861–1960

The Middlesbrough & Guisborough Railway (M&G) was a railway line serving the towns of Middlesbrough and Guisborough as well as areas of the Eston Hills in North Yorkshire from 1853 through to 1964.

History

Beginning

The M&G was backed by the Joseph Pease and his family, one of the major local iron ore mine owners. It was one of two railway schemes (along with the Cleveland Railway) competing for the mining business in the area. The scheme was promoted by the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), which worked the line and absorbed it in 1858.

The line was opened in 1853 to an iron ore mine at Codhill, and passenger services started a year later, stopping in the villages of Ormesby, Nunthorpe and Pinchinthorpe, before terminating at Guisborough. A private station also existed for the sole use of the Pease family at Hutton Gate for the nearby Hutton Hall.

Map of the route of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway as of 1902

The Cleveland Railway's original Act was for a line east of Guisborough, but it also developed a rival line across private land branching from further along the S&DR than the M&G, and after permission from the government, its line extended to Guisborough, meaning the town was served by two railway lines.

Despite the line's close proximity to the Picton-Battersby Line, it was not until 1865 that the Nunthorpe-Battersby Link was built to connect the two lines.

Part of NER

During 1863-5 both M&G and the Cleveland Railway were absorbed by NER and the old Cleveland line was abandoned south of Ormesby. NER then connected the line east of Guisborough to the M&G line before Guisborough, meaning trains had to reverse out of the terminal before continuing along the line to Loftus. It remained this way until its closure in 1960.

A new station was built at Pinchinthorpe and in 1904, Hutton Gate was purchased for public use. The remaining stretch of the Cleveland line was connected to the Middlesbrough-Redcar line and was run as a goods service until 1966.

Pinchinthorpe station closed in 1951, with Hutton Gate and Guisborough closing when the branch line service from Middlesbrough ended in 1964.

Present day

The line from Nunthorpe Junction to Guisborough closed in 1964 leaving the section from Middlesbrough open to Battersby. This still remains in use as part of the Esk Valley Line,^[1] represented by the non-faded part of the diagram.

Ormesby station was renamed to Marton to take advantage of the James Cook connection, and Gypsy Lane was opened.^[2]

Gallery

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  Map of route and surrounding railways

References

External links

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