Newton Dale Halt railway station is a request stop on the

North Yorkshire Moors Railway The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, that runs through the North York Moors National Park. First opened in 1836 as the Whitby and Pickering Railway, the railway was planned in 1831 by Geor ...

and serves as a stopping off point for walkers around

Newton Dale Newton Dale is a narrow dale within the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It was created by meltwater from a glacier carving the narrow valley. Water still flows through the dale and is known as Pickering Beck. The da ...

and Cropton Forest in the

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. When the station was opened, the station signs were written as ''Newtondale Halt''. The halt was built by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway using materials from Warrenby Halt, near Redcar. The halt was a new construction that was a joint enterprise between the NYMR, the Forestry Commission and the North York Moors National Park Authority. The station was opened in 1981 near to the former Newtondale signal box that had last been used in 1930 and was demolished by the NYMR in 1995 due to it being unsafe. There is no road access to Newton Dale Halt and it is a request stop. A small

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style wooden waiting shelter has been erected at the halt (), it is based on the design of the one which used to stand at Sledmere and Fimber on the closed

Malton & Driffield Railway The Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, later known as the ''Malton and Driffield branch'' was a railway line in Yorkshire that ran between the towns of Malton, North Yorkshire and Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The line opened ...

but reduced in size and eliminating the windows. There are four different waymarked walks from Newton Dale Halt, provided by the National Park in conjunction with the

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. The walks vary in length and difficulty to suit most walkers. The longer walks take the walker to Levisham station. For the more enthusiastic (and better equipped) walker there are public footpaths leading elsewhere, including Goathland station but definitive maps are advisable.

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Train times and information from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
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