Steam trains will be running between Pickering and Whitby this weekend for the first time in two years. Network Rail has completed repairs to allow the private North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) to run the locomotives all the way to the coast.
Heavy trains had to banned from the six miles between Grosmont and Whitby because of the bad state of the track.
This weekend is the fortieth anniversary of the last British Rail train from Pickering to Whitby.
NYMR took over the line in 1974 and originally ran services from Pickering to Grosmont but later extended its operations up the Esk Valley to Whitby.
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