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Gatebeck Tramway

Introduction

From Milnthorpe this horsedrawn 3ft 6in (approx) tramway ran north east to Crooklands where it served a mill and there was a siding serving wharves on the Lancaster Canal. It continued to Challon Mill and Gatebeck Powder Works.

Locations along the line

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Milnthorpe

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Lancaster and Carlisle Railway

CAF 195128 runs down the long straight towards the overbridge at Elmsfield with a through train from Windermere to Preston on 27th September 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020

Unbranded 390154, on a Sunday Glasgow to Euston service, heads south at Elmsfield near Milnthorpe on 27th September 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020

On a surprisingly warm and sunny 27th September 2020, 195122 heads north at Elmsfield with a service from Preston for Windermere. At Oxenholme it had ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020

DB operated Network Rail engineers ballast train with 66080 is seen heading from Carlisle to Crewe to the south of Milnthorpe on 12 September 2015. ...
John McIntyre 12/09/2015

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Crooklands Wharf

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The Crooklands Aqueduct (Bridge 165) takes the Peasey Beck underneath the Lancaster Canal. The beck is a tributary of the River Bela, which in turn ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2020

In 2020, over eighty years after closure, a short stretch of the Gatebeck Tramway trackbed survives alongside the A65 at Crooklands, climbing away ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2020

The main water supply for the Lancaster Canal comes from the reservoir at Killington Lake, near the motorway services of the same name. It travels ...
Mark Bartlett 24/10/2020

Bridge 166, on the Northern Reaches of the Lancaster Canal, carries the B6385 road from Milnthorpe to Crooklands. Alongside the road, all the ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2020

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Wakefield's Wharf

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Lonely boat. The little 'Water Witch' (named after an original Lancaster Canal packet boat) is owned by the Lancaster Canal Trust and is the ...
Mark Bartlett 02/04/2022

This stable on Wakefield's Wharf at Crooklands has been restored by members of the Lancaster Canal Trust. An information board says that it was used ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2020

Looking generally southwards on the northern section of the Lancaster Canal at Crooklands in October 2020. This is Wakefield's Wharf, after the ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2020

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Crooklands Mill

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Challon Hall Siding

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Looking south from the site of Challon Hall Siding, along the route of the Gatebeck Tramway which followed the line of this hedge as it proceeded ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2022

Looking along the line of the Gatebeck Tramway at the site of Challon Hall Siding in 2022. Until 1937 the horse drawn tramway crossed the beck dead ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2022

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Gatebeck Powder Works [South]

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I was immediately struck by the similarity between this old office building (now a private house) at Gatebeck Powder Works and its counterpart at ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2022

An unofficial footpath follows the route of the Gatebeck Tramway southwards out of the caravan park that now occupies the Powder Works south site. ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2022

Both the south and north sites at Gatebeck Powder Works are now occupied by caravan parks and most powder works buildings have gone but the south site ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2022

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Gatebeck Powder Works [North]

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Gatebeck Tramway

Introduction

Locations along the line

Milnthorpe

Crooklands Wharf

Wakefield's Wharf

Crooklands Mill

Challon Hall Siding

Gatebeck Powder Works [South]

Gatebeck Powder Works [North]

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