 This route was opened on 1 May 1882.Earlier bills that had passed through Parliament had become known as Forge Valley because of the route they would take up the valley rather than across it.The NERs line was always known as Forge Valley too, but this was also down to the station at Forge Valley serving the villages of West and East Ayton, and so to avoid confusion with the station at (on the Nunthorpe-Battersby line), the name of Forge Valley was kept.