341o2
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If I may....
Which short lived railway started in a place known as Dawson City, travelled about 5 miles, and terminated in what was pretty much the middle of nowhere?
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?)
Is this the Aberford railway ?
Anything to do with Ull, Elland, Halifax? Is Dawson City better known by another name?
Something to do with reservoir construction, perhaps?
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
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!
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?
No, not that. Much closer to the subject of the previous question.Did they pull trains to the gas works?
To do with the reservoirs in Nidderdale?
Not Nidderdale. That was a Bradford scheme. A little to the east.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