(19 Mar 2017, 7:30 pm)MurdnunoC wrote While it's perfectly possible to do Whitby, Scarborough, York and Leeds in a day, why don't you get yourself a 4-in-8 Day Rail Rover?
The North Country Rover is priced at £93 and covers an area which not only includes Whitby, Scarborough, York and Leeds but also Carlisle and the Lakes. It also covers Hull, Bradford, Blackburn, Preston and even Heysham Docks if you want to go and chance getting photographs of buses arriving by boat.
One thing to keep in mind, if anyone does decide to try this, is that there's only one train service in and out of Heysham Docks per day. The service starts at Leeds at 1017, and arrives into Heysham Docks at 1300. The same train then departs Heysham at 1317. It'd be a tight connection to catch the train at Leeds, too. These rovers are only valid for travel after 08:30am on weekdays, so it'd be the 08:35am CrossCountry service to York that you'd have to catch, followed by an 8-minute connection to the 09:40 TPX service to Leeds. I know quite a number of members of the forum won't have the ability to do so, but it's only a two-hour drive down to Heysham Docks (and a pretty enjoyable one too!) so I'd be pretty grudged doing it by train taking about three hours more.
The station is publicly accessible, but you do have to go into the port itself to access it.
I think I'll probably try this Rover out in the summer. I've done the North East and North West Rovers before, but never the North Country. As I have an 16-25 railcard, it'd only set me back by £61.40, and you can really milk these rovers to make that really good value for money.