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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 diesel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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Bottom of Old Rake. Partially blocked waterway, railway line can be seen in the background.

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Norman Jowetts from the level crossing at Portsmouth.

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Norman Jowetts haulage works at Portsmouth. The railway line can be seen top centre.

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Heap and Ashworth, from Bacup and Rossendale, worked at CALDERVALE weaving shed throughout the depression of the cotton famine. After 4 or 5 years there, they built a weaving shed for 400 looms and a carding and spinning mill at Frostholme, near the…

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The railway line was used to transport men and materials during the construction of the reservoir, which was opened in October 1907.

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Left to right: Thorpe House, Thorpe Mills with Thorpe Church above, all Triangle. The railway is the Rishworth Branch line from Sowerby Bridge

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The railway track has been straightened, but the line of the infamous Charlestown curve can clearly be seen. Oakville Road is on the right.

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Showing clearly the former quarry at Scout Rocks. The black dots in the field to the right of the rocks are chicken huts.
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