[7][8] The Y&NM also built a small brick single-road engine shed, large enough for a single locomotive, the shed was extended by the NER in 1867, retaining the same style (they even dismantled and re-erected the end section of the original building, according to the original contract plans held in the NYMR archives).

[9] It is not known what arrangements were made to provide engines with water at Pickering in earlier times but the NER erected a standard cast-iron panelled tank on a brick base (similar to the one at Goathland) at the south end of the sidings immediately north of the station.

Under British Railways (BR) the present station lost its characteristic overall roof in 1952 as an economy measure as corrosion meant it was unsafe.

[13] The NYMR was granted Heritage Lottery Funding for a number of schemes at Pickering station which includes reinstatement of the 1845 designed roof, which was projected to be complete by 2010, but was not officially unveiled until April 2011.

It also appears in a photo of a wedding group on the platform in early BR days, a copy of which is held in the NYMR Archives digital image collection.

[18] In 1967, a group of local residents set up the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Society with the aim of preserving the line.

[19] Initially, due to a dispute with the local council, the railway terminated at a single wooden platform adjacent to High Mill, north of the station.

[21] In pre-preservation days Pickering was not a terminus; the main line continued south to Rillington Junction and thus to Malton, with connections for York.

[17] Just south of the town was a double junction (at Mill Lane) with the Forge Valley branch turning east for Scarborough.

[25] Part of the course of the old line through the town is now a road called "The Ropery" but the former engine shed has been converted into commercial premises (see above) and the bridge over Pickering Beck now used as a footpath.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway runs regular services from Pickering to Grosmont, and since 2007, some summer extensions to Whitby, operated by a variety of steam and diesel traction.