 When the freight from the mines ceased, the passenger services along the Picton–Battersby and Esk Valley lines still remained important to the region, despite competition along the coast lines, with seven weekday trains along the line between Teesside and Whitby in 1900.However, this dropped to four in 1922 and by 1954 it was only two.Passenger services were withdrawn on 14 June 1954, with goods traffic ending west of Stokesley in 1958.