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Holloway Goods - Mystery Solved

Steam_Julie

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I've been examining all the available photos of Cromford Transfer Wharf and then I have also visited the site, as it is today. The photos looking down the Sheep's Pasture Incline, show a double track bridge, under the road.

 

 

Visiting the site today, there is a stone built, single track, bridge under the A6. It looks more like a tunnel, but in technical terms it is a covered way. A tunnel is by definition tunnelled i.e. dug out and a covered way a trench is dug, and then a support structure is built and then the trench is filled in again!

 

This was constructed when the road was widened! The above information was supplied by Derbyshire Museum Service. If i have been more confident, about my research results, would have come to the above conclusion myself, weeks ago. But they say that hindsight is the only exact science!

 

The catch pit, did as it said on tin, it was a pit designed to catch runaway wagons going up or down the incline plane. There were points on the up line they were catch points, on the down line they were operated by a pointsman. they were sprung towards the catch pit, and only set to the down line, Cromford Whalf when the pointsman pulled the lever.

 

Incidentally the Crich site, of the National Tramway Museum, when a working quarry, was linked to the main line network by an rope worked incline plane too.

 

Julie

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Londontram

Thanks brought back many memories. Having lived near by when younger I've walked all sections of the line many times over the years and recognize many of the scenes shown.

                         Steve

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Still haven't seen an actual plan of where all those shorty points are going? One word of caution, pulling wagons through them is one thing, pushing them back is another! It's nice to see the setting for all this, it was a fascinating piece of line, really antiquarian feel to it.

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Steam_Julie

The catch pit and the associated points are off scene and therefore I won't be modelling them.

 

But there are several layouts that do! The best known is a P4 one.

 

Julie

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