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The Rosedale Railway
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Stuart Wilcock
March 1, 2026
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The Rosedale Railway was a 19.5-mile (31.4 km) standard-gauge mineral railway in the North York Moors, England. Built in the 1860s, it was a "goods-only" line designed to transport iron ore from the remote Rosedale mines to blast furnaces in Teesside and County Durham.
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