High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cleveland Railway was a railway line in north-east England running from Normanby Jetty on the River Tees, near Middlesbrough, via Normanby and then via Guisborough through the Eston Hills, to Loftus in East Cleveland. It carried minerals from numerous iron ore mines along its route to the River Tees for shipment to Tyneside and elsewhere. The line was an offshoot of the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway (WHH&R) on the north bank of the Tees, to which it had a cross-river connection via a jetty at Normanby. It was built as a freight railway and provided no passenger services during its brief existence as an independently owned railway.