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    Beckhole Incline was a steep, rope-worked gradient on the railway line between Whitby and Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Opened...
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    opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1865 to avoid the cable-worked Beckhole Incline, which was part of the original 1836 Whitby and Pickering Railway route...
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    yards (110 m) tunnel through rock at Grosmont, constructing a rope-worked incline system at Beck Hole and traversing the marshy and deep Fen Bog using a...
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    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...
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    1836, with the incline from Beckhole to Goathland worked as a rope hauled cable railway. A railway station was established. The incline was replaced by...
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    at Beckhole, for the use of steam engines, which, once they had been lowered down the incline, generally stayed operating between Whitby and Beckhole. The...
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    Pickering, which was constructed in order to avoid the cable-worked incline at Beckhole. A new connection was also made from Castleton (now Castleton Moor)...
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    it did see the opening of the Goathland Deviation line to avoid the Beckhole Incline. Thus the next station to the north changed from Goathland Bank Top...
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    valley of the Murk Esk at Beckhole to the high moors at Goathland by means of a 1,500-yard (1,400 m) long rope-worked incline at an average gradient of...
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    were connected via a railway that ran across the moors and down a steep incline near Ingleby Greenhow, which then joined the main railway network at what...
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