First there were fairies, now there are pirates!

Story trains on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Fridays until the end of August

Today (Friday 25 July), there were wings aflutter aboard the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but next Friday (1 August 2014), there will be cutlasses, eye patches and plenty of facial hair as the clean-living pixies make way for a marauding horde of pirates for the second of the summer’s Story Trains.

Expect hijinks on the rails, as passengers join forces with the pirate train-mates for a rip-roaring journey through the lawless lands of the North York Moors national park!  A gang of sea-faring outlaws will take over the 10.00am train from Pickering station, before travelling up to Goathland for games and exploration!   Crewmates hop back aboard the 12.50pm train, heading ashore at Levisham station for games and entertainment, landing back in Pickering for around 2.40pm.

“This is a fantastically fun way of enjoying a trip on the world’s most popular heritage railway – we hope that we’ll get lots of young pirates in costumes on board to make sure we don’t have any mutinies from the parents, and we’ll be giving away a free family ticket for the best pirate of the day – what better excuse is there to dust off your Jack Sparrow, Blackbeard or even Elizabeth Swann or Anne Bonney costume!” comments Danielle Ramsey, marketing manager for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

Tickets for the Story Trains are £20.50 for adults, £17.50 for seniors or £10.50 for children.  A family ticket – covering two adults and up to four children – is just £45.00.  Pre-booking is strongly recommended, as places are limited.

Storytrains take place each Friday on board the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, with themes as follows:

Pirates – 1 and 22 August

Hogwarts – 8 and 29 August

Fairies – 15 August

For more information, or to book tickets, please visit www.nymr.co.uk

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Pyper York Limited

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