Lord Carlisle’s Railway: Forest Head to Gairs

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Forest Head Quarry and Lime Kilns

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Track bed climbing up to Forest Head Quarry (1820-1)

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Foresthead Lime kilns 1920 and 2016lime-kiln-2

Lime Kiln draw holes to remove quicklimecottage

Abandoned cottage Forest Head Quarryincline-plane

Incline Plane to Blacksike and Talkin Collierystrata-forest-head

Interesting strata in Forest Head Quarrybrick-pillars

Brick Pillars next to workings in Forest Head Quarry


Gairs and Howgill Waggon Ways

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Howgill Waggon Way (1798-1835) making its way along the side of Tindale Fell to Tarnhouse Collierygairs-line

The Gairs standard gauge railway line (1909) making its was across the side of Brown Fellgairs-line-2

Looking down a stretch of the original 1798 Wagon Way towards Tindale Tarnold-mine-shaft

Hard to believe that this isn’t the flood entrance to one of the Venture drift mines
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The track bed turns the spur on Brown Fell as it climbs towards Gairsgairs-3

Looking back down the track bed to Foresthead in the Valleywallnuick-siding

Looking from the siding at “Wallnuick” down onto the main Gairs Railway, which continues along the side of Brown Fell to Gairs Colliery (top right)

Note: The only reference that I can find to Wallnuick is in "The Brampton Railway" by John Charters and published by Oakwood Press in 1971

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Gairs Colliery

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Railway siding at Gairs Collierygairs-mine-entrance

Entrance to Gairs drift mine

2 comments

  1. Yes ,Foresthead to the Gairs colliery is exactly as you say on the map and the images of the tracks bring back lots of memories for me as my mother lived at the Gairs which was built for the coal manager in about 1869,an image of the Gairs is not amongst your photos but I remember it well and my mothers neighbour at the Gairs became the legendary Northumbrian piper Joe Hutton,it is an area that I never tire of visiting when I can.

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    • From 1948 to 1988 my family rented half of the Gairs as a summer holiday cottage.
      Many happy memories – we would probably still be there if it was not for Mrs Thatcher’s Poll Tax.
      Images now are sad with robbed out walls and slates.
      When did your mother live there please?
      All the best
      Martin

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