North Yorkshire Moors Railway

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is the country’s most popular heritage railway.

Take the opportunity of a day trip with a difference and the chance to visit Pickering – a busy market town, Goathland village – perhaps better known as Aidensfield in YTV’s Heartbeat, Levisham – with its beautiful forest drive and walks, Grosmont – a genuine 1950s railway junction where you can take a break in the station café, visit the engine sheds and view the locomotives under restoration and on many days throughout the year, journey onwards to the historic port of Whitby.

The railway has featured in several feature length films over the years including, Brideshead Revisited and All Creatures Great and Small. More recently, Pickering Station was dressed for Possession starring Gwynneth Paltrow. For the first film based on J K Rowling’s series, ‘Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone’. Goathland Station was turned into “Hogsmeade” where the school of wizardry and witchcraft is based. The railway’s shop on the platform was transformed into the “Prefect’s Room” and the Ladies toilets became the “Wizard’s Room” which did cause a little confusion at the time!.

On television Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Casualty and of course, Heartbeat have all featured the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in their programmes and all are set in different periods.

For more details, prices, timetable and full details of this wonderful journey through the finest countryside in the world (!), go to the NYMR website.

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