RMweb Gold RThompson Posted October 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2019 Heres the photos as promised now i've found them of the former Titterstone Clee workings where the narrow gauge system ran and was also cable hauled down the incline to Bitterley Wharf to meet with the Standard gauge wagons. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hart Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) I was given a copy of this L&NWR drawing headed "Brake Van for Clee Hill Incline" which Ive now had scanned as a pdf and is (hopefully!) attached. Hoping it might be of interest and use to modelers . Mike Hart LNWR Clee Hill Brake Van.pdf Edited January 10, 2020 by Mike Hart 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Thank you very much for the drawing Mike. I will put it to good use. Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I was chatting to an old man the other day who grew up in Middleton. He remembered seeing an incident where a cut of about 3 wagons ran away from Middleton siding towards Ludlow. Lacking a locomotive a guard jumped into a brake van and 3 men gave it a good shove down the track. Apparently he managed to catch and stop the wagons just before they reached Ludlow Station. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 Hello Hesperus, Thank You for the info re the run away wagons. I have only been able to find one picture of Middleton Siding. The other bit of information I am after is the bell codes used between the foot of the incline and the winding engine at the top of Clee Hill. Hope you are keeping well. Gordon A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Hi Gordan, hope lifes treating you well. I'm all good thanks when I'm not being blown away I've never seen a picture of the siding, presumably it faced down the hill if the wagons ran away from it? Don't know anything about the bell codes either but I'll keep listening out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 Hi Hesperous, At the moment keeping well thank you. From the picture I have seen and Cooke's layout diagrams, Middleton Siding faced up hill towards Bitterley. I would think they were either shunting the siding or splitting a train when the wagons ran away. Middleton Siding was adjacent to Middleton village between Ludlow and Bitterley. I have been collecting a number of photos of Bitterley and the top of Clee Hill which I have in a picture album for reference. Many thanks for your help. I am hoping to visit the CM&DP railway and industrial museum when this virus quietens down. Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Thanks, that would make sense. I remember there were different maximum train lengths above and below it. No worries, most of the infomation I know about the railway in my back garden is from this thread. Give me a shout when you're heading up. I don't know much about the CM&DPLR but I'd be up for a trip out to find out more. Could be worth waiting till the ground drys up a bit. Its soggy everywhere at the moment. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Village newsletter came today. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 Interesting Hesperus, especially on the first column where there is a reference to "mount a lorry". As this is before the track layout at Bitterley was changed which would have precluded such happenings. Gordon A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 It did remind me of the complaints about the press refering to carriages in the thread about the recent oil train derailment in South Wales. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidmouth Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) I'm sure you do, but there are some nice images in Branch Line Byways vol 1 The West Midlands by G F Bannister and published by Atlantic Press in 1986. A number of images of Bitterley are included Edit , should have read page 2 first ! Edited October 28, 2020 by sidmouth 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardO Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Might anyone have the dates of construction and opening of the two inclines at Bitterley? Bernard fquirk202@aol.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted July 16, 2021 Author Share Posted July 16, 2021 "On the 24th August1864 the first 4.5 miles from was opened from Ludlow to the sidings at Bitterley Wharf, On the1st June the line was extended a further 1.5 miles to the quarries at Clee Hill, which included a cable operated incline as far as the village of Dhustone. Subsequently a rope haul incline was constructed, also from the sidings in Bitterley running via Bedlam up to the quaries on top of Titterstone Clee. "Wagons on the Titterstone incline were narrow gauge." Extract from Bitterley Parish Plan. page 13. Gordon A 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Lorry, in outdated use, meant a horse drawn flat wagon, and was used in early days for some kinds of railway wagon too, it was also used to mean a small tramway cart for use in mines. Originally spelled lurry and derived from a word to lug or drag about. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lorry I've seen the word rulley used for horse drawn flat wagons, the sort of thing the Scammell mechanical horse was originally developed to pull as a replacement for a horse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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