Railways in the Peak District
Railways in the Peak District The Peak District has always been a formidable barrier to transport links across it, particularly railways. Sheffield and Manchester were connected in 1845 by the first…
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Railways in the Peak District
The Peak District has always been a formidable barrier to transport links across it, particularly railways. Sheffield and Manchester were connected in 1845 by the first line across the Pennines through the notorious Woodhead tunnel, followed by a gradually infilling of lines connecting Peak District towns and villages. The first crude horse-drawn tramways fed canals on its eastern and western flanks, but in 1825--the same years that the Stockton & Darlington railways opened--a standard gauge line climbed over the top of the Peak District and down the other side on fearsome inclines to connect canals at Cromford and Whaley Bridge.
The line between Dore and Chinley was the last main line in England to be driven across the Pennines in two huge Some of them became famous as the Settle-Carlisle route, such were the engineering difficulties of driving a route through the limestone dales.
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