Exchanging the tablet whilst exiting Falsgrave tunnel with a train from Whitby. The locomotive will draw the train forward, then run round it and push it back into platform 1A. The tunnel was at an estimate around 260 Yards long and followed a route similar to a horse shoe or a bow through to Gallows Close goods Yard (Now the site of Sainsburys in Falsgrave, Scarborough). The tunnel its self was constructed by building a cutting from the Signal Box at Falsgrave through to Gallows Close goods yard and then building the retaining walls and roof over the top of the cutting. Then earth was piled on top of the brick work, an act by Parliament that at least two foot of earth must cover the Apex of any tunnel. The tunnel was built over the course of about a year between August 1882 and June 1883. The tunnel was rather small and carried only one track through it.

Louis Heath added " I believe that they were only allowed to push back up to two loaded carriages, hence the reason for running round.

This was also the case when the Middlesborough-Scarborough trains dropped down the descending curve from Whitby West Cliff to Whitby Town. They could not push back up more than two carriages unless there was a pilot loco on the front "