Tramroad at Round Barn (1)
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Tramroad at Round Barn (1)
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 4 Jun 2013
This tramroad linked the quarry behind the houses with the railway in the bottom of the valley. It had at least 3 phases of existence. The 1894 25inch shows it as a disused tramway, indicating an earlier phase of existence, probably narrow gauge. By 1910 it has been reinstated as a narrow gauge tramway, by this stage also serving a brickworks adjacent to the railway. by 1929 it is shown as a standard gauge mineral railway connected into the main line. In all phases it was certainly a rope-worked incline, as it is far too steep for locomotive haulage. It had then clearly ceased operation by the 1950s, probably significantly earlier. It is now a public footpath.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.66666
Longitude
-2.417525