All aboard for a trip down memory lane

A charter train took 1,500 passengers along a rarely used Teesside line on a day organisers are calling “challenging, nostalgic and very successful’

- By DAVE ROBSON news@gazettemedia couk @TeessideLive

A CHARTER train took 1,500 passengers along a rarely used Teesside line on a day organisers are calling “challenging, nostalgic and very successful’

The “Boulby Flyer” travelled from Middlesbrough and Saltburn to Boulby - stopping next to the mine - on a line usually used only by freight trains.

Three return trains ran during the event, which was held on the same weekend as the Stockton and Darlington Railway 200th anniversary celebrations.

Passenger trains along the line ceased in 1960, since when it has been a freight-only line dedicated to the potash and polyhalite traffic from Boulby and steel products into Skinningrove.

The event was thought to be the first time a passenger train has used the line for around 20 years. And according to Rob Dallara, of organisers Saltburn Railtours, it was a great success.