A coming together of Class 101 DMUs at Battersby sees

the 10.40 Middlesborough to Whitby approaching from the right whilst the 10.13 from Whitby, on which I am travelling heads straight into the station seen in the distance. When two trains arrived on-time at Battersby it gave rise to the rather disconcerting event of them running in parallel to each other for a short distance made even stranger as both had been running on single track for the bulk of their journeys. Notice both home signals pulled off on the twin dolls on the approach to the station. Battersby then and now is a remote station somewhat isolated from the community it professes to serve. The line used to continue on the relatively short distance skirting the northern flank of the North Yorkshire Moors to join the Northallerton to Middlesborough line at Picton.