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derrickman
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12 years ago

http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/60/Ironstone.htm

I just about saw the last days of these lines, and the scrapping of the trackbeds that followed

http://www.apack1.co.uk/page9.html

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

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remoteneeded
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12 years ago

I've been meaning to visit the Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust for some time as they have a fair number of locos and related artefacts. Unfortunately their website isn't very informative at the moment as it's currently concentrating on Halloween

http://www.nirt.co.uk/

There's more detail here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northamptonshire_Ironstone_Railway_Trust

derrickman
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12 years ago

http://www.apack1.co.uk/~apack867/ but it seems to be difficult to find any information about preserved remains of these lines

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

remoteneeded
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12 years ago

Using the 'way back machine' you can see the pre-halloween NIRT website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110525103222/http://www.nirt.co.uk/

crl50
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12 years ago

I've been slowly plotting theses old lines in a Google Earth overlay, done with help from Alan Pack & others involved in the working of them & later restoration of the land.

Work on it has stopped for a while as I've been busy on other things but I will get back & finish it, although it can never cover every piece of track as that moved with the quarry face.

Chris

crl50
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12 years ago

Anyone wants a copy of what I've done so far just pm me & I'll send a copy minus a few locations.

davetdi
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12 years ago

hi there,

have followed Alan Packs website and read it with great interest as the old mines and railways fascinate me, moreso being a local.

have dropped you a pm re the railway overlay

crl50
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12 years ago

I don't seem to have a pm from you.