Former Millers Dale Railway Viaduct - Millers Dale, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 15.394 W 001° 48.351
30U E 579662 N 5901477
This former railway bridge carried the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway over The River Wye and now carries the rails-to-trails Monsall Trail route.
Waymark Code: WMRJFY
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/28/2016
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The Bridge
The bridge is a tall brick built three arch bridge and carried the former railway high over the river. These days the impressive structure is a well visited tourist attraction because as well as carrying the Monsal trail 'rails to trails' cycle path it is also used as a site for abseiling.
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The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway ran from a junction with the Midland Railway at Ambergate to Rowsley north of Matlock and thence to Buxton.
In time it would become part of the Midland Railway's main line between London and Manchester, but it was initially planned as a route from Manchester to the East of England, via the proposed Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway which would meet it a little further north along the North Midland line at Ambergate. The Act for a line from just south of Stockport to Ambergate was passed in 1846."
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Monsal Trail
"The Monsal Trail is a traffic free route for walkers, cyclists, horse riders and wheelchair users through some of the Peak District's most spectacular limestone dales.
The trail runs along the former Midland Railway line for 8.5 miles between Blackwell Mill, in Chee Dale and Coombs Road, at Bakewell.
Most of the route was opened to the public in 1981 but four former railway tunnels had to remain closed due to safety reasons, with public footpaths taking people around them. From 25 May 2011 the four railway tunnels - Headstone Tunnel, Cressbrook Tunnel, Litton Tunnel, Chee Tor Tunnel – opened for trail users. Each tunnel is about 400 metres long and is lit during normal daylight hours."
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