Stainmore Summit
View from a train - 1962. Photograph taken from The Stainmore Limited, as 77003+76049 haul the 9 coach special over Stainmore summit, commemorating the end of operations on the line. The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway route across the Pennines was notorious for snow blockages in winter with a summit height of 1,370 ft (compared with Shap at 914 ft and Beattock at 1,033 ft) placing it between Slochd (1315 ft) and Britain's highest main line summit at Druimuachdar (1484 ft). The old cast iron summit signs are now preserved, one at the NRM in York, the other at North Road Museum in Darlington.
Location: Stainmore Summit (former)
Original line: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
Photographer: K A Gray
Contact photographer: K A Gray
Date: 20/01/1962
Image number: 24103
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