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Triangle: Halifax: This is an old railway branch line,
probably closed down in the 1960's. For such a small piece of railway, the
construction of the bridges and supports to the cuttings is inspired and the
drill holes for blasting can still be seen in the rocks. Sidings drop down to
the river, across which the mills would have been accessed (now converted to
luxury apartments). The key stones on the bridges bear the carved numbers which
dictated where they were to fit once they were built. Why did the Victorian
workers cut a hole in a rock in a stream to make a jet of water - presumably to
fill their kettles, will we ever know?
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View to cattle pen |
How many
man-hours to build this wall supporting a track
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The whole railway contains walls to prevent rock
fall after they blasted the cutting
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There are fossils in the rocks around the quarry,
on full view
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man made weir allows the stream to descend the
valley
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Magnificent bridges along the route sometimes
only support a path
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The hole in
the rock in the stream: is this the kettle filling spot?
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Needless to say the dogs love this walk with
squirrels and crows to chase at every turn
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The effect of snow on the landscape is eery
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Light shining through ice sabre
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attempts to block part of the route have been ignored
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Presumably the tree came after the wall
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A stone trough on the hillside, but no remains of
any building
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Another
masonry detail - a trough bridge carries water from the field across a
stream?
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A freak storm funnelled through the length of the
railway cutting and uprooted trees
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details of stonework are everywhere, finishing a wall like this suggests
someone really cared
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Difficult to say which reincarnation of the
bridge this must be
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Footprints on the wooden bridge
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