Cromford & High Peak Railway in Colour Evans John
Cromford & High Peak Railway in Colour Evans John Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the…
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Cromford & High Peak Railway in Colour Evans John
Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines. The line weaved its way through some of the finest scenery in England and was dotted with crazy gradients and whiplash curves. This railway oddity opened in 1831 and somehow survived almost unnoticed until 1967, when there was a flurry of publicity when it closed.
John Evans visited the line many times in its later years, his camera nearly always loaded with priceless colour film. Here was the steepest normal railway in Britain and the only place where you could see a gradient post saying '1 in 8.' It also used steam right to the end, by which time it had outlived many more illustrious undertakings. His pictures are published here for
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