After seeing the culvert, take the path leading south through Avens Wood. Climb the bank to emerge to look north-east over pasture towards the course of the line. A lighter coloured bank can be seen which marks the formation (picture no 7). The line here has no significant earthworks. Continue following the path which leads between High Farm and the unoccupied Grange Farm and then turn left to Low Farm. Go through the gate ahead of you and then through the one on the right; the farmer intends to make a path to by-pass these two gates and the farmyard. Follow the path to Stubdale Farm and go straight ahead between the pond and the farmhouse.
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| 7. The course of the line seen from Avens Wood indicated by the ellipse |
The path leads out on to a pasture with a row of small trees on your left. A break in this row could be where the line crossed the path, although all signs of the formation have been ploughed up. You reach a gate which gives access to the open moor. Turn right here, keeping to the fence until you reach the second corner where the fence turns south-west (about 100m). Look to the south-east and see the course of the line just visible as it crosses the moor on the level. Spoil can be seen at the sides of the formation. As you walk along the line, it drops slightly below the level of the surrounding moor and curves gently round to approach the junction of the main Whitby road with the Liverton road (picture no. 8). This is called Paddy Waddell's Corner and in the 50s and 60s people would sit in their cars here watching the traffic go by. There used to be a stone bridge here taking the Whitby road over the railway. Mr Moore relates in his book how he learned from Jim Husband of Liverton that a crack had developed in the bridge in the early years of the twentieth century and it was dismantled and the stone taken away for use in Skinningrove iron works.
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| 8. Looking north along the cutting approaching Paddy Waddell's Corner. |
Looking south, a shallow cutting can be seen heading into a wet area of the moor called Water Dittins. Dittins is an old Yorkshire word meaning shaking ground, so care should be taken! (picture no 9). The cutting adjacent to the road is only short and is followed by a short embankment. The arrow marks the course of the line as it bears south-east and climbs over the moor. It can be followed as a small 'marker' embankment with ditches on either side until a 'real' embankment is reached. This embankment covers a 40" drainage pipe (picture no 10) installed by the railway builders. It leads to a cutting, the spoil from which provided the material for the embankment. A little further on is a boundary stone marked 'V.D. 1884', standing for Viscount Downe. On the opposite side of the formation is another stone marked with a 'D' and a smaller stone marked 'Water Dittins'. Mr Moore explains this is where the old pannierman's way between Waupley and Clitherbeck crosses the railway. Further on is another 40" pipe (picture 11) which carries the Waupley Beck followed by an embankment and a cutting. Picture 12 looks back over the cutting. There are no more definite remains until Black Dike Slack is reached but there are tantalising glimpses of lines of hummocks which might have been intended to mark the onward course across the moor.
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| 9. Looking south from Paddy Waddell's Corner. The arrow indicates the course of the line in the distance as it bears south-east. | 10. 40 inch drainage pipe running under an embankment. |
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| 11. Pipe carrying Waupley Beck with the embankment before the final cutting on the right. | |
| 12. View from the end of the works in this area. The embankment at the end of the cutting is the one visible in picture 11. |