How They Built the Settle-Carlisle Railway

Written by W R Mitchell

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Book condition

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Book details

Paperback:

48 pages

Publisher:

Castleberg

Language:

English

ISBN:

1871064031

Book description

When, in the 1870s, the Midland Railway planned to take a direct share in the lucrative Scottish traffic by building a line from Settle to Carlisle, the engineers had to contend with high hills, deep valleys, a geological porridge called ‘boulder clay’, a rainfall of over 100 inches a year, high winds, lingering snow and a fickle labour force.

How They Built the Settle-Carlisle Railway by W R Mitchell is unusual in that the text is made up of contemporary notes and comments. Words penned in the 1870s come ringing down the years.

W R Mitchell

W.R. (Bill) Mitchell was born in Skipton in 1928. After gaining…

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Book tags

• Castleberg,
• Railway,
• Settle to Carlisle railway,
• Settle,
• Local history,
• Transport