Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 I came across these wonderfully inspiring pics of the line on Flickr and I just had to share them... 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted June 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2020 Great pictures. Thanks. From one who remembers it actually working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, highpeakman said: Great pictures. Thanks. From one who remembers it actually working. What I wouldn't give to have seen it in its prime. Edited June 22, 2020 by montyburns56 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 So many of these locations would make lovely little dioramas. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JeffP Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Fascinated me from afar as a boy. I mean, an engine shed called Sheep Pasture? And to cap it, the shed directory gave no directions, just an Ordnance Survey map reference. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2020 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 On 21/06/2020 at 16:43, montyburns56 said: I came across these wonderfully inspiring pics of the line on Flickr and I just had to share them... And here's the last victim of that runaway pit. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Great photos. Thanks for sharing them. Hard to think it's 52 years since closure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Only 52 years? That means that it had only been closed two years when my family moved up to Derby. I was fascinated by the remnants that were still visible in the early 1970s; it's actually pretty gutting to know that I missed seeing it in operation by only a short (comparatively, in the hindsight of late middle age) period of time. I also find it remarkable to think that it was completed only six years after the Stockton and Darlington started operating, especially given the challenging route. When I was exploring it as a youth I never realised that it had such age to it. I certainly remember the wrecked wagon in the runaway pit - ISTR reading that the incident had occurred not all that long before closure. Is the wagon still there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 The general air of decrepitude is quite something.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 2 hours ago, ejstubbs said: Is the wagon still there? Yes - the photo was from last year. It's slowly rotting away but should be there for a few more years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Reorte Posted June 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) Once we were driving up the A6 through the valley, I was a small child in the back of the car. My dad said there used to be a railway up the hill on the left and I thought he was making up something very strange, there was no way a railway would ever have gone up a hill like that... Having cycled up it since I still think it's mad Edited June 25, 2020 by Reorte 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2020 You’re original post is John Evans’ collection of photos off Flickr and he also has a very fine book on the line published. There’s a few of us on RMWeb that are a bit obsessed with the C&HPR. AlistairG has an interpretation of Ladmanlow Sidings, Geraint (Middlepeak) is currently building Friden and I’m building Middleton Top here - 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2020 Even better than Talywuan, which also had a 1 in 14 adhesion worked incline. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 I reckon this was taken at Friden 27 June 1964 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 Middleton Bottom 1964 by Neil Ferguson Lee 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 29, 2021 Author Share Posted August 29, 2021 Middleton Top 1966 by The Jeyes Whaley Bridge Sheep Pasture Cromford Incline Bottom 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2021 I live just around the corner from Whaley Bridge, really like those pictures. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 41 minutes ago, Reorte said: I live just around the corner from Whaley Bridge, really like those pictures. Thanks, I walked the Whaley Bridge end of the line myself a few years and I remember going across the bridge that's in the pictures. And you might like this pic from the same collection as the above. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 22/06/2020 at 16:43, montyburns56 said: Love the water tank looks like an old boiler. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) I retired last year, so It's about time I took a trip to the Cromford & High Peak to walk the trail. Will the forum please recommend book titles for the C&HPR so I may study the history of the line? Edited August 31, 2021 by Pandora Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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