From Newcastle To Whitby

Introduction

I love going to Whitby and I used to drive but Whitby is not a place for cars, just park them and that's it. We usually stay at La Rosa (my favorite hotel ever) or Dillons (just a lovely welcoming place) and my stories about them are at the end of this.

When I tell people it takes three hours to make a seventy-mile journey they are shocked, then I tell them there are twenty-eight stations on the route and it is a pleasant and interesting journey as well, and they say that they see why. When I was looking for the station list I saw that a one-way journey is as little as £4.50 so not only is it a nice journey it is also cheap though some great countryside along the North Sea Coast.

I then thought that a list of the stations was virtually a twenty-eight-line poem, so yes it's a bit of a cheat, and a bit lazy on my part, but here it goes.

There are a lot of references which either you will know or you will have to look up.

The song is "The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains" by The Kinks with an intro from the Dennis Hopper / Kiefer Sutherland film "Flashback" which has a stunning soundtrack.

From Newcastle To Whitby And Back

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Newcastle This Is Where We Start

Heworth No It's Not The Brontes

Sunderland Home Of The Black Cats

Seaham Coastal By The North Sea

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Hordern A Place Between Others

Hartlepool Not Safe For Monkeys

Seaton Carew Seaside Resort

Billingham Is Anglo Saxon

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Stockton Here's Stephenson's Rocket

Thornaby on Tees In Marshes

Middlesborough Transporter Bridge

James Cook The University

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Marton And Then Comes Gypsy Lane

Nunthorpe And On To Great Ayton

Lots Of Small Stations On This Train

Battersby, Kildale And Then On

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Commondale And Castleton Moor

Danby, Lealholm, And Through Glaisdale

Towards Our Destination's Door

Egton And Grosmont Heartbeat Trail

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Sleights In The Valley Of The Esk

Ruswarp, Mile And A Half To Go

This Lovely Journey's Been No Test

Whitby, We're Here, Dracula's Home

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