Prospect Hill Junction

[3] Services past the site started in 1883,[4] but it did not become a junction until the opening of the Scarborough and Whitby Line in 1885, and at the same time, the signal box was commissioned.

Trains leaving Scarborough going north, were deemed to be going down, but when they reached Prospect Hill Junction, the direction changed to up, as Middlesbrough was the eventual, and larger destination.

[11] The crossing loop at Prospect Hill could accommodate a steam engine, brake van and 14 standard wagons.

Thereafter, services between Scarborough and Whitby Town reversed at Prospect Hill until March 1965, when the last passenger train used the junction.

[14] The line between Haswker and Prospect Hill was not removed until 1973;[15] the 2.75 miles (4.43 km) section was left in-situ for the proposed potash traffic, which never happened as mining was centred at Boulby further up the coast.

However, gravity allowed the van to move down the grade and to crashed into the rear of the stationary locomotive and the shattering glass cut the guard's face.