Great stuff, Jeff - that's fairly local to me and some of the places mentioned are in my Registration District. Bleath Gill itself might even be in 'my patch' but I doubt we get much, er, business from there! The railway itself is long gone, although some of the track bed remains and can be easily seen...
Actually, no, Jeff - I checked the history of the line this morning and it died by stages during the 1950s, finally closing in 1962 (by Ernest Marples), which was a year before Dr. Beeching would have wielded his axe anyway, without a shadow of a doubt... It must have been a great journey - the scenery is magnificent and somewhat akin to the Settle-Carlisle line which still operates in the same area. In fact, the two lines must have crossed at some point...
Nice to see Tilly's in their natural environment. A nice film. Looked a bit like the last 3 months here - does it every year & not much more pleasant as in the film. An interesting post. Chris W - "Winterpeg"
The Reading Railroad museum has a wood faced v plow mounted to a box car-living quarters. This was pushed along by the locomotive. That must have been a hell of a ride! Dan
Yeah, there's also a wooden one in the local branch of the National Railway Museum - Locomotion at Shildon. It's a huge thing... I always thought they'd just go at the drifts quite gently, but no, they just smack straight into them going at a fair old speed - terrifying!
David having plowed my share of snow ,speed is everything. Snow likes to do two things--fly thru the air or compact into a concrete consistency.Speed makes the difference between the two. Hit it to slow and you will wear the dash board. Dan
Hello David, a few years ago I took the train from Aberdeen to Carlisle and another train from Carlisle to Skipton, that is a very senic route and I also returned that way. The weather was good on the first journey but not so good on the return. I recall speaking with the late Mr John Claypole who was a Derbyshire man born and bred. He had worked for British rail for many years and Beeching was not his favourite person! In John's opinion the UK., had a rail network which provided an excellent service and many small rural communities were reliant on it. Jeff.
