Boulby line information

The Boulby line is a freight-only railway line in Redcar and Cleveland, England. The line was opened in stages between 1865 and 1882, being part of two...

Boulby is a hamlet in the Loftus parish, located within the North York Moors National Park. It is in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire...

Boulby Mine is a 200-hectare (490-acre) site located just south-east of the village of Boulby, on the north-east coast of the North York Moors in Loftus...

1957, a purpose for which it still is in use for today as part of the Boulby line. Saltburn Viaduct is believed to have been designed by Thomas Elliot...

opened in 1861, and the line towards Brotton and Loftus opened in 1872. The line beyond Loftus (now the freight only line to Boulby Mine) was part of the...

section of the line was retained, with services still operating between Middlesbrough and Saltburn. Between Saltburn and Boulby, the line is also still...

Redcar and Cleveland 1872 Brick arch II Carries the Boulby line (now a mineral branch terminating at Boulby Mine) over Skelton Beck Sankey Viaduct near Earlestown...

closed in 1963, but then in 1974, it re-opened as part of the freight line to Boulby Mine carrying potash traffic. An Act of Parliament from 1865, authorised...

at Saltburn West Junction. This line is still in operation today to serve the Skinningrove Steelworks and the Boulby potash mine, although passenger trains...

Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, the Boulby Underground Laboratory, the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory...

Coast in England. Whilst Hunt Cliff is not as high as the nearby cliffs at Boulby, the view of it from Saltburn has been described as "very striking". Historically...

estuary to the Humber estuary, on the east coast of England. The cliffs at Boulby are the highest on the east coast of England, rising to 660 feet (200 m)...

handles more than a million tons of potash and salt exports, mainly from Boulby Mine Steel Export Terminal: equipped with eight gantry cranes, it handles...

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proposed potash traffic, which never happened as mining was centred at Boulby further up the coast. However, the signal box was subject to vandalism,...

passing loop afterwards. Though the line is closed to passengers, the track remains to service the nearby Boulby Potash Mine. However the track layout...

Hills meets the sea has been designated as a Heritage Coast. The cliff at Boulby, at 690 feet (210 m), the highest point on the east coast of England is...

Beverley rail line". York Press. Retrieved 5 January 2018. "East Riding Council takes first step to reopening York to Beverley railway line". The Yorkshire...

which was finally closed on 21 January 1964. The line remains open as a single-track goods line from Boulby and Skinningrove to Teesside, but most of the...

almost 6,000 year-old salt-making complex at a Neolithic site near the Boulby Cliffs in Yorkshire. Researchers revealed three salt-making kilns and fragments...

relaid from Skinningrove by 1 April 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine, the station remains closed, and most buildings have been demolished...

in 1930. Part of the site is now underneath the surface workings of the Boulby Mine complex, though some buildings remain at ground level. In 1852, Charles...

mines in Great Britain are in the North: Winsford Mine in Cheshire and Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire, which also produces half of the UK's potash. Northern...

Major General Russell Upcher (1844–1937) Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount (1893–1940) Brigadier-General Francis Charles Bridgeman (1846–1917)...