Celebrations held to mark 150 years of Stainmore line [BBC News]
Date: 26/08/2011
Stainmore celebrations - slide show [From John McIntyre]
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Railway line anniversary marked
BBC News
Enthusiasts are celebrating 150 years since the Stainmore line in east Cumbria first opened.
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I get a definite Transylvanian feeling in the area of the Pennines around Belah. I think this is due to my general overall sensitivity, although my wife says it's because I am quite mad. The remains of Bouch's great viaduct with its stone signal box still perch threateningly on the hillside in May 2006.
Location: Belah Viaduct
Company: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
11/05/2006 John Furnevel
Location: Belah Viaduct
Company: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
11/05/2006 John Furnevel
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
Company: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
20/01/1962 K A Gray
Location: Stainmore Summit
Company: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
20/01/1962 K A Gray
NER 0.6.0 65033 entering Barnard Castle on Penrith-Darlington train.
Location: Barnard Castle
Company: Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway
13/04/1951 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Location: Barnard Castle
Company: Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway
13/04/1951 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow
