Pickering and the NYMR

Today we only rode a few miles (6 miles - 10 km) into town, but from there we caught a TRAIN across the moors.



Specifically the North York Moors Railway which is an incredible working museum railway running from Pickering to Whitby. They also welcome bikes, which is kind of annoying because we could have planned to do this little stretch on stream train, oh well. I think the highlight was the little station at Goathland (in the photo above, with our train coming in), lets ignore the fact that the town was used for Heartbeat and focus on the fact it was also in Harry Potter at the station for Hogsmeade, it was apparently used essentially as is, which isn't hard to imagine. The whole experience, staff, trains, stations and the scenery were all very enjoyable and very impressive. Imagine if we'd gone on a day when they run the A4 engines (Mallard's Class), I might have just ridden up and down all day.