The Scarborough Flyer Part 2: Hull to Scarborough 12th September 1999

            A 10 minute video of LNER V2 2-6-2 60800 Green Arrow on the The Scarborough Flyer from Hull to Scarborough via Selby & York. This first video covered Doncaster to Hull.

1) After arrival from Doncaster 60800 runs round its stock in the splendid trainshed at Paragon station to turn on the turntable at Botanic Gardens depot (I think). After returning we depart westwards passing the junction for the line to Bridlington on the right with a glimpse of Botanic Gardens through the undergrowth.

2) After crossing two of the few level crossings left in Hull we smokily climb up to the bridge over the entrance to the erstwhile Hessle Yard. Today a single track runs from Hessle to the siding for the Tarmac Hull Asphalt Plant.

3) The next sequence is at Gilberdyke where we pass the junction and signal box for Thorne to the left - we arrived from that direction earlier in part 1. Selby is reached & not long after the former ECML junction for the now-closed section to York via Riccall we pass Barlby crossing box & slow for the swing bridge over the river Ouse. 

4) Selby station's platform awnings are still impressive but its status on the main line north is now gone as are the centre through lines. We turn right at Selby West Junction (the crossing box was renamed from London Rd Junction when the trackwork was rationalised) & will reach York via the tight radius 1983 connection to the Selby Diversion & Normanton-York line from Hambleton Junction. The diversion was opened when the Riccall section closed to allow coal mining beneath it. Sadly the mines are now closed too.

5) Crossing Class 60 diesel 60072 with one wagon held at the north junction our train reaches York where we stop in platform 11. As the connection to the Scarborough line was taken out some years ago 60800 has to reverse the stock and return into platform 5. The train then takes the tight curve across the ECML for the Scarborough line. There are good views of the engine as the train snakes through Kirkham by the river Derwent.

6) We pass the still semaphore signalled Seamer Junction where the line from Bridlington & Hull joins the York route. Soon we are passing the reinstated turntable on the site of Scarborough shed's original and under the splendid signal gantry we enter Scarborough station into platform 1. A brief view of the original overall roof and the North Sea beach and harbour follows and then as darkness falls we head back to York.

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Taken on: August 25, 2024

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