Churnet Valley Railway Bridge Over The Caldon Canal - Consall, UK
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N 53° 02.367 W 002° 00.083
30U E 566955 N 5877124
This railway bridge carries the Churnet Valley Railway over the Caldon Canal just to the north of Consall Station. It is bridge 50A on the canal.
Waymark Code: WM11F42
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/11/2019
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The Caldon Canal
"The Caldon Canal (or more properly, the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal), opened in 1779, runs 18 miles from Etruria, in Stoke-on-Trent where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal at the summit level, to Froghall, Staffordshire. The canal has 17 locks and the 69-metre long Froghall Tunnel."
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The canal and the railway are in the narrow Churnet Valley that was created by and through which the River Churnet Flows. This point is one of the narrowest parts of the valley and the railway crosses the canal at an oblique angle.
The Churnet Valley Railway
"The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway to the east of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, that operates along a part of the former North Staffordshire Railway's (NSR) Churnet Valley Line. Regular services travel between the two main stations at Cheddleton (the base of operations and motive power) and Kingsley and Froghall (the commercial and Administrative base). There is an intermediate station at Consall. Some trains also head beyond Cheddleton to Leek Brook Junction (the limit of the Churnet Valley Railway's track) and on to Ipstones, but Ipstones station is not in use.
The railway is roughly 10 1/2 miles (16.9 km) long from Kingsley & Froghall station to Ipstones. The land from Leek Brook Junction to Ipstones is owned by Moorland & City Railways (MCR), a company aiming to run freight trains from the quarries at Cauldon to the national network at Stoke-on-Trent, and to re-introduce a commuter service between Leek and Stoke."
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