Shanty Life on the Settle-Carlisle Railway

Written by W R Mitchell

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Book details

Paperback:

48 pages

Publisher:

Castleberg

Language:

English

ISBN:

1871064015

Book description

Hundreds of people lived in shanty towns on the moors between Ribblehead and dent Head in the 1870s as the Midland built its Settle-Carlisle railway – a fast, all weather route by which it might claim its share of the lucrative Scottish traffic. Navvies, carpenters, masons and miners were among those engaged in building a viaduct across Batty Green and driving a tunnel through Blea Moor.

Shanty Life on the Settle-Carlisle Railway is written by W R (Bill) Mitchell a Local author based in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire.

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