Going back to the NER, The Scarborough-Whitby line was famed for its reversal outside Scarborough (and its terminal platform which is still visible out by the signal box) but IIRC there was also a brief period in the 60s when trains no longer served Whitby West Cliff but reversed at Bog Hall Jn.
The Scarborough to Middlesbrough line in the 1960s was also known for the number of reversals in the journey - four - which I don't think was ever equalled, although some were in stations. There was the one immediately outside Scarborough station if leaving from the main platforms, one up at Prospect Hill Junction in Whitby, one a couple of minutes later in Whitby station, and finally one at Battersby. Although introduced once DMUs had become standard in the area, I can recall several photos of the era with steam services.
We may as well have an amusing recollection. Summer 12-car service, Victoria to Brighton, and many at Victoria did the long trek to the front to be first off and down to the sea at Brighton. Got as far as Three Bridges, stopped, announced that there was a blockage ahead and we would be diverted. Off round through Horsham, and went right through to Littlehampton station as first convenient reversal point. Then back along the coast line. On this stretch, a number of those who had walked down to the front, and were now at the back, set off to make the tedious walk through 12 cars, grumbling, and tripping over feet and luggage along the way. They just about made it by Hove, but as the West Coastway platforms at Brighton are short, and to point the train back up the main line, it was suddenly left round the curve to Preston Park, where we stopped away from the platforms, to reverse again into Brighton main platforms. With that lot at the back again!
