Editing North Yorkshire Moors Railway (section)

==Television and film appearances==
The railway has been seen both on television and in film. [[Michael Palin]] hosted and produced an episode of the first series of ''[[Great Railway Journeys of the World]]'', titled "Confessions of a Train Spotter".   Filmed during late July/early August 1980, it featured a 15-minute segment filmed as he travelled the entire railway and visited the repair shops.  [[Goathland railway station|Goathland station]] has been used as [[Hogsmeade]] in the ''[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]'' films,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.empireonline.com/features/harry-potter-travel-guide/2.asp| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020135951/http://www.empireonline.com/features/harry-potter-travel-guide/2.asp| archive-date=20 October 2011 |title=Harry Potter And The Locations Of Filming| access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> the 2016 ''[[Dad's Army (2016 film)|Dad's Army]]'' film <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/local/dad-s-army-movie-to-be-filmed-on-historic-railway-1-6887045 |title=Dad's Army movie to be filmed on historic railway |newspaper=[[The Scarborough News]] |date=9 October 2014 |access-date=28 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326094123/http://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/local/dad-s-army-movie-to-be-filmed-on-historic-railway-1-6887045 |archive-date=26 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Aidensfield]] in the sixties drama ''[[Heartbeat (UK TV series)|Heartbeat]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/outandabout/film_tv_locations.htm |title=Film Locations – TV Locations |website=Beautifulbritain.co.uk |access-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> Pickering station was used in the films ''[[Possession (2002 film)|Possession]]'', ''[[Keeping Mum]]'' and ''[[Downton Abbey (film)|Downton Abbey]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Newton |first1=Grace |title=These Yorkshire locations will appear in the new Downton Abbey film |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage/these-yorkshire-locations-will-appear-in-the-new-downton-abbey-film-1-9838483 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=24 June 2019|access-date=29 June 2019|url-access=limited}}</ref> Other appearances include ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'', ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'', ''[[The Royal]]'', ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot|Poirot]]'', the ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' television series,<ref>{{cite web |title=Hull & Barnsley Railway Stock Fund – preserved wagons and coaches |url=http://www.hullandbarnsleyrailway.org.uk/stock.php |website=www.hullandbarnsleyrailway.org.uk |access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref> and the films ''[[Testament of Youth (film)|Testament of Youth]]'', ''[[Phantom Thread]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Heritage railway awarded £4.4m grant |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-48163368 |access-date=2 June 2019 |work=BBC News |date=4 May 2019}}</ref> and ''[[The Runaways (2019 film)|The Runaways]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flanagan |first1=Emily |title=Stars Mark Addy and Tara Fitzgerald filming in Whitby for latest production attracted to region |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15528730.stars-mark-addy-and-tara-fitzgerald-filming-on-coast-in-latest-production-attracted-to-the-region/ |access-date=24 March 2019 |work=The Northern Echo |date=11 September 2017}}</ref>

The railway has also featured in the documentary ''Yorkshire Steam'', which ran for two series on local television; in the second series of ''[[Great British Railway Journeys]]''; and in the [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] documentary ''The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/f7qv2t/the-yorkshire-steam-railway-all-aboard-episode-guide/|title=The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard Series and Episode Guides &#124; TV from RadioTimes|work=Radio Times|accessdate=27 February 2021}}</ref> with series three being aired during February and March 2020.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/aboard-north-yorkshire-moors-railway-17727229| title=All aboard as North Yorkshire Moors Railway returns to television| last=Welford| first=Joanne| date=12 February 2020| website=gazettelive| access-date=22 February 2020}}</ref> Goathland station features in the 1985 music video for [[Simply Red]]'s ''[[Holding Back the Years]]'', along with BR Standard Class 4MT Tank No. 80135. The railway has also appeared in a series of ''[[Thomas & Friends]]'' learning segments, with LNER Class A4 ''[[Sir Nigel Gresley (locomotive)|60007 Sir Nigel Gresley]]''.

The production of ''[[Downton Abbey (film)|Downton Abbey]]'' film used Pickering station on the railway in its opening scene; the train is shown travelling through several communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/visiting/see-and-do/tv-and-film-locations|title=TV and film locations|website=North York Moors National Park|accessdate=27 February 2021}}</ref>

In April 2021, scenes for the film ''[[Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One]]'', were filmed on the railway, at Levisham.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/tom-cruise-waves-to-fans-as-he-films-freight-train-scene-for-mission-impossible-7-on-the-north-yorkshire-moors-railway-3207737|title=Tom Cruise waves to fans as he films freight train scene for Mission: Impossible 7 on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway|date=21 April 2021|work=The Yorkshire Post|accessdate=21 April 2021}}</ref> Filming for [[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny]] also took place on a section of the railway, in June 2021, in the village of Grosmont.<ref>{{cite news|date=8 June 2021|title=Indiana Jones: Grosmont village hosts Hollywood stars|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-57402055|access-date=13 June 2021}}</ref>