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Thanks, very interesting, we were there last year.

I was glad to find both of Frederic Williams' early books on railways as free ebooks on archive.org. They provide contemporanous accounts, sometimes quote from major players of the time who he would have known, and a serious of etchings of infrastructure and equipment. He does not appear to...

Thanks so much. Great.

Please may I ask: are there now any other timber bridges still operational on the Cambrian Coast line, apart from the Barmouth Bridge? Since the road/rail bridge near Penrhyndeudraeth was rebuilt that was another one. I seem to remember a small one also near the coast. Thanks.

Trying to post the link to the online article. The system doesn't like an url shortener. Here's the direct link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rtjdd97C1g0g1UO2Z_YQHvhPPh-dQ-_z/view

One Derby paper gave a very detailed account of the progression of the problem, starting with a track height loss of about a foot. Continual efforts were made to bring the track up to height with ballast as the embankment slumped further until they realised nothing more could be done. The...

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Thanks, that's a very signifant observation and likely rules it out!

Thanks so much. Yes, I've got both of those photos. But just wondering if there was some sort of slab beneath ground level. For the reports are that apparently the entire viaduct moved downhill en bloc a signficant number of yards, yet much of it survived until demolition 20 years later. The...

Thanks so much. The reason I ask is that I have been researching the Bugsworth Landslip, which closed the Midland Main Line almost as soon as it was opened. A five-arch viaduct with embankments at each end took the line over a sloping depression in the land. High rain and water ingress into one...

Dear engineering experts, please may I ask: I am wondering what the footings of a typical masonry viaduct would look like. Might they be a continuous loadbearing single slab beneath all the arches, particularly if the rock beneath was deemed to be dodgy? Thanks.

Yes, just a historical thing when I guess Glossop was the big player. Though why Chapel didn't extend out to that point! Thanks!

Thanks everyone. Yes, all my misunderstanding, now I see the actual Act, it's just the chord at the viaducts. And not realising that the parish of Glossop at that time came so far :-)

I may be misreading things, in this detailed account of the act for the Dore and Chinley to be submitted to parliament (fifth column in Derbyshire Times Dec 1883). It is interestingly worded as 'some or all' of the things outlined. The main one, 'railway 1' is the Dore and Chinley. The other one...

Long shot, but please does anyone know who was the stationmaster at Bugsworth Station when in opened, in what was to prove a dreadful year, as the line closed almost as soon it opened, with the stone viaduct breaking up, and a year later, a serious accident involving two crashes and two...

Thanks so much 30907. That certainly resolves the question! And thanks everyone. Here, if anyone would like to see it, is the unfinished draft of the story.

Thanks so much. Yes, I assumed Woodley Junction was where it was later, and yes, a reversal, and perhaps loco swap could be done here. 1690299496 Thanks so much, very interesing. So as the ambitious Midland now had easy access to Liverpool as a Cheshire Lines member, they'd want to keep as much...

As a retired amateur local historian, I have been investigating a double crash/double runaway on the Midland Main LIne in Sept 1867 - you are welcome to have the writeup and use it in any way you wish. Briefly, a doubleheaded Liverpool to Birmingham cattle train ran into a stationary ballast...

Thanks. Yes, guess that Chinley station being so near, it was not worth building a goods shed, etc. Actually space was probably rather limited there anyway.

Thanks everyone. I have come to the assumption that Bugsworth Station box lasted till the track was quadrupled in 1902-3, when it was replaced by Bugsworth South Junction, situated at the crossovers between the two sets of tracks.