Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Battersby

  • Battersby Moor

    Battersby Moor

    In yesterdays’s posting I quoted a piece of written evidence to Parliament submitted ahead of a debate on Monday to ban driven grouse shooting. That evidence very much supported a ban on driven grouse shoots. I promised to give an opposing view so this morning so I went for a run on Battersby Moor in…

  • Park Nab

    Park Nab

    Late evening sunshine. View to Battersby Crag. And a request to include a link to the location. Here goes.

  • Steam at Battersby

    Steam at Battersby

    A few times a year preserved steam engines use the Esk Valley railway on the way to the North York Moors Railway at Goathland. Locos are frequently hired or loaned between the country’s preserved railways. At Battersby Junction station trains from Middlesbrough have to reverse out to continue to Whitby; and vice versa. That’s no problem…