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ironworks
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13 years ago

http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/4038163/a-study-of-the-railways-built-to-convey-coal-and-ironstone-to-low-moor-ironworks3-pdf-may-26-20?da=y .
I hope it interests you. Thanks

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ICLOK
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13 years ago

Yeah damn right its interesting :thumbup: ... Fabulous mate and a very enjoyable read with suitably great pictures... Thanks, a very interesting tramway system indeed!
Best wishes
ICLOK :thumbsup:

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ICLOK
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13 years ago

Actually whats left currently? Not an area I know but def looks worth a walk... any engine house rems??? :flowers:

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Roger L
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13 years ago

Very interesting report on one of our local mining areas. There are several other mines round the Three Nuns mine but they do not appear to have been linked to the Low Moor Complex.
Well Done
roger

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mudbeast
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13 years ago

A most fascinating and worthwhile research project on a much neglected but important part of our industrial history. Low Moor Iron was well known in the locomotive building world.
Well done. 🙂

Peteraf
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13 years ago

That is really good

ironworks
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13 years ago

There are some interesting corners to this subject. Mr Dickinson who carried out the research told me that when the L&Y railway was constructed by George Stephenson up the Calder Valley, they initially used stone sleepers. The Low Moor Company certainly used them. At later they switched to wooden sleepers. I have just walked the Honister Mine Incline in the Lake District. There are some excellent examples of wooden sleepers with the spikes intact. The impression is that the use of wood would lead to cheap efficient tramway construction. But when the Hartshead incline was constructed around the 1900's they reverted to stone sleepers. :confused:

Roger L
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13 years ago

The Huddersfield Area has always had a good supply of stone so this would have been an obvious choice

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kwallace6
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8 years ago

I have recently 'discovered' the Low Moor and Clifton Colliery Tramways and have been attempted to research these early railways.

I have found the links to your research at Keep&Share, but it would appear that the information is no-longer available there. Is it still possible to access these documents?

Roger L
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8 years ago

#10

'Yorkshire Man' has done a full copy of the railway and I too have a copy of this. I have a spare copy on AO but you require a magnifying glass to read it fully.

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lipsi
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8 years ago

#11

Seems to be no longer accessible

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground.
That's where I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So follow me down Cousin Jack
(Grateful thanks to Show of Hands)

Roger L
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8 years ago

#12

I can't get on either.
http://www.ironworks.talktalk.net/

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kwallace6
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8 years ago

#13

Hi Roger

This was the sight that was originated by 'Ironworks' but the links don't work for me. They just take me to the 'Keep&Share' site with a note that "This information is not available".

Very disappointing.

Keith