North Yorkshire Moors Railway - (Goathland Station)

We found the entire experience to be utterly delightful. There is a convenient Pay & Display parking lot right at the station. And, a cafe on site as well as toilets if needed. The ride to Whitby and back was comfortable and quite scenic. We traveled on Wednesday in mid September, and the train was quite full with people making the trip to and from Whitby, but we were able to purchase tickets shortly before departure. It really was a delightful trip.

Huge Potter fan and this has been on my wish list for years. It’s a beautiful station to look round and absolute dream to be there, we spent a while there looking at various spots and soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying the peacefulness. There is a sleeping car onsite, so we were careful to be quiet and respectful to the space. Visited in the evening, so the platform was empty. But also meant shop wasn’t open (which is probably a good thing 😆🙈) It was free to get onto the station, gate was unlocked.

Fabulous morning visiting the station. It was a beautiful day and we took the time to explore the station. The staff were friendly and welcoming. It was exciting waiting for the train to approach the station. It’s been well maintained throughout. There’s toilets available and it’s dog friendly too. The parking is slightly cheaper here than in the main village (£3.80 all day). The scones were delicious from the tea room!! We left the car and walked into Goathland to explore where they filmed Heartbeat!

Great little station to visit. We timed it well and got two trains in 5 minutes standing on the bridge. It is where they filmed some of Harry Potter for the Hogsmead station but apart from a little shop selling HP stuff they don’t have anything that doesn’t look in keeping with the station. You can buy tickets for a ride on the trains and there are toilets to use. There are some really nice photo ops and you get some great shots on the bridge and can get very close to the engine, the kids enjoyed it and it’s only about 20 minutes from Whitby and not much further from Scarborough.

Just a lovely station to visit. It's very clean and well maintained and the station staff are so friendly. There are tea rooms, a shop and an educational carriage for children to learn more about the railways. We were lucky enough to see a steam train go through the station. Did I say it's a lovely station.

Famous for the NYMR steam line and the Harry Potter films. Great location to visit, even when the trains dont run. Please check the website to prevent disappointment

Lovely place to visit, the staff are very friendly. The prices are a bit high but for 24 miles worth of an authentic experience, I cant really complain much. Beautiful locomotives and the carriages are well kept too, I highly recommend a visit for any steam enthusiasts or fans of the Heartbeat series.

Really unique and joyful place. Full of volunteers who care and fantastic trains. My 80 year old mum loved the step back in time. A place to be cherished as a jewel.

If visiting Whitby or the area..take a trip on a steam train and visit here. A station people recognise without often knowing why. Goathland railway station is a typical countryside station, almost unchanged since its construction in 1865. The station has been restored to represent an NER country station post World War 1 circa 1922. The station is popular with tourists due to its appearances in Yorkshire TV's Heartbeat and the first of the Harry Potter films. The station has a newly refurbished Tea Room which is inside a Goods Warehouse. The station also has a traditional camping coach, which is let for holidays. This station (originally known as Goathland Mill) is on the deviation line opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1865 to avoid the cable-worked Beck Hole Incline, which was part of the original 1836 Whitby and Pickering Railway route. Known as Aidensfield in Heartbeat and Hogsmeade railway station in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this English village is a popular tourist destination.the line was filmed for Harry's journey. The engine used was originally GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No.5972 Olton Hall. Built at Swindon in 1937, o.5972.Olton Hall was one of a class of 330 versatile mixed traffic locomotives, designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway. No.5972 is now set to find new fame as the Hogwarts Express locomotive in the Warner Brothers' film of Harry Potter stories Renamed Hogwarts Castle and repainted into fictitious Hogwarts Railways bright red livery, No. 5972 appeared in the first session of filming at Goathland, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The original Goathland station was located at the head of the incline, where there are still some Y&NM cottages, together with a single W&P one.The station buildings were to the design of the NER's architect Thomas Prosser and were very similar to those being built concurrently (by the same contractor, Thomas Nelson) on the Castleton to Grosmont line. The collection of buildings is very little altered since they were built - the last recorded change (apart from NYMR restoration) being in 1908. Goathland village is perhaps much better known as Aidensfield in Yorkshire TV's Heartbeat than its real name.

Drove up there last year to visit the birthplace of Count Dracula and the home of Captain Cook, worth the visit. The station isn't that bad and doubles as the filming location for HeartBeat and The Royal. Worth the trip, so much to do too, the Yorkshire Moors are just breathtaking!

Our kids love the North Yorkshire Moors Railway ('NYMR') (they're aged 3 and 5, so perhaps it's understandable), and when we go for a trip in the summer we will often break our journey here. It's a pleasant enough little stop; as a station it can't really be faulted. In the summer it tends to get very busy with tourists on the Heartbeat trail. If you want to avoid them a good tip is to head off for a walk: behind the southbound platform there's a gate, and if you turn left (heading north) there's a pleasant little path that will take you back over the railway in due course and into the village via a different route to everyone else. You'll probably need a bit of peace and quiet because when you get back to the station it will be heavingly busy again -- the northbound and southbound trains have to arrive and depart at the same time as most of the NYMR is single-track

Goathland is a lovely little village a few miles out of Whitby. It has a real old fashioned train station (used in Harry Potter) and there are regular steam trains passing through that you can take a ride on. The village itself is the base for ITV's Heartbeat, I first came here many years ago when it had just started being filmed and it was a lovely village..it still is but it's an awful lot busier nowadays! The garage is permanently set up like a Heartbeat shrine and is just across the street from the 'Aidensfield Arms' The are some lovely walks Beck Hole is worth a ramble to. Plenty of parking is available and several shops tooselling everything Heartbeat related that you could imagine! Mind out for the sheep though...they wander along the streets munching the grass.