I would really like to do this but it clashes with other stuff unfortunately.
I have fond memories of late 80s/early 90s as a youth riding up to Bloworth Crossing (though I can't remember if I used the incline or straight up to the Cleveland Way via Park Farm near Kildale). I do remember the climb up and having to dodge the game shooters on the moor top as I recovered from the effort and then being able to feel the indents from the old railway sleepers on frozen ground whilst riding over to The Lion Inn.
Looking back I suspect it was more the Park Farm route, though I recall coming down Bank Foot in a very bouncy Range Rover after helping CSRT up on the moor, might have been during a LDW Cleveland 100 event (1993).
When ever I hear
"I'm going down to Rosedale" it always reminds me of riding up there (though I don't think it's the same Rosedale mentioned
)
I came across a good set of resources for the
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway Company when I was trying to work out what the bridge goes over after the old Black Swan (about 28 km on the route), this is the Esk Valley Line, from
Treeholme Bar to
Battersby - the connection being Battersby is where the Rosedale Branch climbs up to Farndale Moor and thence on to Blakey Ridge.
Some
historic pictures here of the Rosedale Branch, including Ingleby Incline etc
