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Not quite. We have established that the bridge is named after Dr Daniel Carrión, but he did not die directly treating patients. Yes, there was an epidemic in the railway construction camps causing illness and death, so to complete the question, what was the disease and how did Daniel Carrión die?
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Cholera ... and very nastily?
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Plague, polio, Spanish flu?
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The disease in question was Verrugas or Oroya fever, it was argued at the time they were seperate. Likened to VD, it was believed to be a good sign if sores erupted on the body of the infected. It is now known to be a virus spread by mosquitoes (reminds me of Covid in people gathering in what was once a remote area). The Chilean Rotos were particularly susceptible and Mieggs needed them for construction work.
Can anyone give the cause of Daniel Carrión's death?
Can anyone give the cause of Daniel Carrión's death?
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Forgive me for being picky, but "What was the cause of death of a doctor?" is rather stretching the topic of Railway General Knowledge! 
Anyway: Pulmonary Embolism?
Anyway: Pulmonary Embolism?
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Actually he injected himself with contaminated blood to study the effects of the disease which proved fatal
As Calthrop came the closest to the answer, on his request declaring open floor
As Calthrop came the closest to the answer, on his request declaring open floor
FrodshamJnct
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Agh I can’t remember the name but someone told me about this when I worked in West Yorkshire (the county where I think this is?)
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Is this the Aberford railway ?
No it isn’t, sorry
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Anything to do with Ull, Elland, Halifax? Is Dawson City better known by another name?
It isn’t that far from Elland or Halifax, maybe 10 miles or so, but Dawson City no longer exists.
DerekC
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Something to do with reservoir construction, perhaps?
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Scammonden Dam by the M62, did it serve a settlement for navvies? Went up the moor by the leats? There is a lot of nowt up there
DerekC
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My guess is one or more of the reservoirs between Todmorden and Ripponden - Withans Clough, Warland, Light Hazzles, White Holme and Blackstone Edge. I have no idea when they were built!
Getting closer. Try looking the other side of the valley
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There's just so many! I am looking at the OS map trying to see any obvious railway traces. There's Widdop, Gorple and Walshaw Dean in the valley of the Hebden Water? Gorple looks a likely candidate, with maybe Dawson City in the outskirts of Hebden Bridge?
I think we’ve got there in the end, and the floor is yours
This is the Blake Dean or Hardcastle Crags railway, an absolutely bonkers undertaking built to support the construction of the reservoirs at Widdop. Dawson City was on the edge of Heptonstall, roughly where Slack Bottom is now, and the railway - which was 3’ gauge - ran from there, along the top of the side of the valley, before crossing Hebden Water on a 100 foot tall pitch pine viaduct at Blake Dean, and continuing up to where the reservoirs were being built.
The engines and everything else required for the railway had to be brought up from the valley bottom by man or horse power - locos from Hebden Bridge via the road through Lee Wood, sleepers up from Gibson Mill in Hardcastle Crags. That’s about 550 feet of climb.
Once the reservoirs were built, of course, that was it. There are still some signs of it - the abutments of the viaduct and some of the earthworks.
This is a good page about it complete with photos - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardcastle-crags/features/dawson-city
DerekC
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Wow! That's a new one on me. You would have thought they might have put a cable worked incline in.
Staying in roughly the same area, what did Progress and May do to help Harrogate Corporation, and what was odd about them?
Staying in roughly the same area, what did Progress and May do to help Harrogate Corporation, and what was odd about them?
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Did they pull trains to the gas works?
DerekC
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No, not that. Much closer to the subject of the previous question.
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To do with the reservoirs in Nidderdale?
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The Nidd Valley Light Railway was used to carry men and construction materials to the construction sites for the building of Angram and Scar House Reservoirs
DerekC
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Not Nidderdale. That was a Bradford scheme. A little to the east.