It carried trains from 1878 to 1968, with the last passenger train crossing on September 5, 1964 and the last goods train in May 1968 by the Stephenson Locomotive Society, when the branch was closed by the Beeching cuts.
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The closure of the lines to Whitby was marked by the Whitby Moors Rail Tour run by the Stephenson Locomotive Society and the Manchester Lococmotive Society and was hauled by preserved LNER K4 2-6-0 no.3442 The Great Marquess and York shed's K1 2-6-0 no.62005 (which resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the care of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG).