A charter train took 1,500 passengers along a rarely used Teesside line on a day organisers are calling “challenging, nostalgic and very successful”. The “Boulby Flyer” travelled from Middlesbrough and Saltburn to Boulby – stopping next to the mine – on a line usually only used by freight trains.

Three return trains ran during Sunday’s event – held on the same weekend as the Stockton and Darlington Railway 200 th anniversary celebrations. Passenger trains along the line ceased in 1960, since when it has been a freight-only line dedicated to the potash and polyhalite traffic from Boulby and steel products into Skinningrove.

Sunday’s event was thought to be the first time a passenger train has used the line for around 20 years. And according to Rob Dallara, of organisers Saltburn Railtou

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