Part of the track has been overlaid with concrete, which could explain why this small section has survived. A quick scout around revealed no further evidence of a railway apart from a possible cutting a few metres south of the track.
The rail measures approximately 2" high with the head approximately 1 1/4" wide (a tape measure lives in my Land Rover, for just such occasions). Sleepers seem to be a mixture of wood and pressed steel 'Jubilee'.
Looking west along the track;
And looking east, towards the dam wall;
A closer view;
And what I can only assume is the remains of a shallow cutting;
In the above photo the camera is pointed west, the rail is on the right and the visitor centre across the road on the left. The gradient falls away from the camera.
Paul.
What a great find...something that 99% of folk wouldn't give a second look, yet to us it conjures up all sorts of fancies. I'll bet Mark knows of a book that includes the railway :-)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny how we manage to spot stuff like this? I doubt that I'd have seen it in the summer though.
DeleteA book would be good! Howard Bowtell's series on reservoir railways can be hard to track down these days, how I wish I'd bought them when new.
Yes I'm sure it will be in one of the Botwell books, unfortunately I only have the Yorkshire Pennines volume. Annoyingly although Langsett Reservoir just around the corner from me is on the map in that volume it's not covered in the text although Royd Moor and Scout Dike are, yet Langsett had an extensive railway system. I'm guessing it must be in one of the other volumes.
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