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The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was a railway line from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, the line followed a scenic route along the Yorkshire coast.
It fell victim to the Beeching Axe closing in 1965. The trackbed has been developed into a rail trail and now forms part of National Cycle Network Route 1.[1]
The owners of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway intended to purchase the line in the 1960s as the Yorkshire Coast Railway, however the cost proved too great so they transferred their attention to the line through the North York Moors.
In 1988, a planning application - number 40270093 - was submitted to the North York Moors National Park Authority to reconstruct Ravenscar station and turn it into a railway museum, but the application was refused.
However there remains local hope that the Whitby-Scarborough line could possibly someday re-open as a heritage railway with the Coastal Rail-Trail alongside it, which could be very valuable for the economy of this part of coastal North Yorkshire.