North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Museums & Science Centres · Pickering, North Yorkshire
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Closed — opens Saturday at 9.20am
🏠 Indoor & outdoorSeasonal openingEducationalMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Paid car parks at Pickering (GBP 7 all day), Goathland (GBP 5), Grosmont (GBP 6), Levisham (GBP 5); GBP 2/hr Mon-Sun 09:00-18:00, free outside those hours. Operated by CPS UK. Whitby car parks are not NYMR-run.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A heritage railway running 24 miles through the North York Moors National Park, with stations at Pickering, Levisham, Goathland, Grosmont, and Whitby. You can ride behind steam, diesel, or autocar engines. Summer activities include the Discover Your Heroes Trail, Story Creation Station at Goathland, and hands-on engineering workshops. The North Yorkshire Pullman offers dining with views of the moors from June to August. Special events include the Annual Steam Gala, Mad Alice's Ghost Train, and Santa Express in winter. Driver experiences let you take the controls of a locomotive. The railway also offers heritage accommodation and carriage charter for special occasions.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Portable phone charger
- Gloves
- Picnic blanket
- Folding stool
- Bum bag
- Hair bobbles
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