The site of Lowick level crossing
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Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Jun 2012
The farm track to the left of the public footpath from which this picture was taken was once a narrow-gauge railway, which crossed Drayton Road here and ran ahead to quarries between Lowick and Sudborough. A friendly villager explained that the woodland on the skyline in the centre is growing on what was once a spoil heap. Iron ore quarrying in this part of East Northamptonshire followed the opening of the Midland Railway Kettering-Thrapston line in 1866. The Islip Ironworks (now the site of the industrial estate in gridsquare Image) opened in 1873, supplied by opencast quarries (and later mines) at Slipton, Twywell, Lowick and Sudborough. The ore was brought to the furnaces by 3ft-gauge steam railways. The quarries and tramways at Lowick and Sudborough were in use for about fifty years until closure of the last pits in 1952. For pictures of railway and quarry vestiges in Slipton, see Image and Image
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