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Beckhole Incline
Beckhole Incline was a steep, rope-worked gradient on the railway line between Whitby and Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Opened in May 1836 as part of the horse-worked Whitby & Pickering Railway, the line was operated by three railway companies before becoming redundant on the opening of a diversionary line to the east that allowed through working by steam engines on the entire line. Although the incline was closed to regular traffic in 1865, it was used for a very brief period in 1872, to test a special locomotive intended for railways with steep gradients. The site of the incline can now be walked, as part of the Rail Trail between Goathland and Grosmont.
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Beck Hole SSSI
Beck Hole is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England. This protected area includes separate woodland patches within the valleys of Wheeldale, Eller Beck and Middle Grain Beck around the villages of Goathland, Beck Hole and Darnholm and includes Blue Ber Wood, Bradley Wood, Mill Scar Wood and the waterfall called Mallyan Spout. This area is protected because of the woodlands within ravines.
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Birch Hall Inn
Birch Hall Inn is a public house founded around 1860 in Beck Hole in the North York Moors, England. It is designated as a Grade II listed building.
It is noted for its small bars and shop, and interior, and is popular with hiking tourists on holiday in the area.
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Beckhole railway station
Beckhole railway station was a railway station at Beck Hole in the North Yorkshire Moors on part of the original Whitby and Pickering Railway line. Although it was possible to travel to Beckhole in 1835, the station was opened in 1836, and closed to passengers permanently in 1914. Beckhole closed completely in 1951.
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Goathland Bank Top railway station
Goathland Bank Top was a short lived, early, railway station in Goathland, North Yorkshire, England. The station at the top of the Beckhole Incline (sometimes referred to as the Goathland Incline) was opened with the opening throughout of the Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) on Thursday 26 May 1836. The station closed with the opening of the NER's Deviation line (which bypassed the by then anachronistic cable worked incline) on 1 July 1865. Thus, the station had a life of less than thirty years.
A new Goathland station (initially called Goathland Mill to distinguish it from the earlier station) was opened on the deviation line.