North York Moors Railway Pedestrian Subway Approximately 110 Metres Long is a Grade II* listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. A Industrial Pedestrian subway.
North York Moors Railway Pedestrian Subway Approximately 110 Metres Long
- WRENN ID
- worn-lancet-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Pedestrian subway
- Period
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- NZ 828 050
- Coordinates
- 54.43432, -0.72471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North York Moors Railway pedestrian subway is an approximately 110-metre long tramway tunnel, built around 1834 by George Stephenson for the Whitby and Pickering Railway Company. It features bordered tooled sandstone. The north entrance has a battered retaining wall with a single round-arched entrance flanked by tapering cylindrical turrets on tall chamfered bases. Above the arch, there is a machicolated cornice with a castellated parapet between the turrets, which have flat circular caps. The retaining wall on the east side curves against the hillside and ends in a low cylindrical pier with a machicolated flat cap, while the wall to the west of the arch merges into the hillside. The south entrance mirrors the north entrance but lacks the castellated parapet above the arch. Originally, this subway served as the horse tramway tunnel for the Whitby to Pickering railway line, becoming obsolete around 1847 when it was replaced by a steam tunnel built alongside by the York and North Midland Railway Company.
Local climate
North York Moors Railway Pedestrian Subway Approximately 110 Metres Long receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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