 The NER ran twice-daily express trains over this route, but the service was not profitable, and was withdrawn.Efforts to construct a line restarted in 1870; a new route was proposed, and initial estimates of the cost of the line were approximately £100,000 ().During the same period the Whitby Loftus line was being developed, which with the proposed line would complete the north–south link in the eastern part of the north of the country.