Enthorpe Cutting
Enthorpe Cutting
![Looking south-west along the full length of the half-mile cutting.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image1-117.jpg)
![From the midpoint, the climb up towards Enthorpe Station.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image2-117.jpg)
![Chalk in close-up.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image3-117.jpg)
![The infilled bridge at the cutting's north-eastern end.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image4-116.jpg)
![A Liverpool to Scarborough service heads coastbound.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image5-116.jpg)
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Like many others, Enthorpe’s deep cutting could quickly become impassable due to snowfall. In the winter of 1943, a passenger train, rescue engine and snow plough all got stuck there. Four years later, the railway was lost beneath drifts for three months, some of them as high as a telegraph pole.
Now a Site of Special Scientific Interest, the bridge at its northern end has been underfilled with the demolished remains of a five-arch, brick viaduct from further up the line.