You have to strain to see a bit of a corner of Yorkminster - a brilliant building when you see it properly but hardly a crowning glory from the railway line!The Tees Viaduct at Croft....the distant views of the Cleveland and Hambleton Hills to the East - and the Yorkshire Dales to the West....the station museum at Otterington....the Kilburn white horse....the ex-Great North of England Railway cottages at Pilmoor, with their prominent plaque....trying to identify the sites of closed stations from the terraces of ex-LNER staff housing built for the 1930s quadrupling of the line....the Sidings Hotel and Restaurant at Shipton-by-Beningborough, with its mark 1 coach bodies and semaphore signals....and finally - the crowning glory - York Minster.
I do agree that the York - Durham section of the ECML, while not as good as what's north of it, is fine and doesn't quite deserve the kicking that the line further south gets. Not top-class but not terrible, and some nice sights. Darlington station, the Tees Viaduct, Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire Dales and White Horse in particular stand out. It is York to Hitchin where it becomes much more dull.
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