Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway

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Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway
Track remains at the mountain station, view downhill, 2016 Pumping station at the valley station, 2002
Track remains at the mountain station, view downhill, 2016 Pumping station at the valley station, 2002
Water facility, Bulkeley Hill.jpg
Line of the Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway
Route of the narrow-gauge funicular railway
Route length: approx. 0.3 km
Gauge : 610 mm ( 2 foot track )
Maximum slope : approx. 45 ° = 1000  ‰

The Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway was an approximately 300 m long narrow-gauge funicular railway ( English : Incline) with 610 mm (2 feet ) gauge at Bulkeley in Cheshire , England . With a gradient of 1: 1 (45 °) in places, it is often referred to as Cheshire's steepest railway .

history

The Staffordshire Potteries Water Board received approval in 1937 to set up drinking water pumping stations at Peckforton and Tower Wood , Cheshire, with a reservoir on Bulkeley Hill , from where the water was sent to a large reservoir at Cooper's Green near Audley for distribution to Tunstall and the pottery was run. After the water was pumped into the elevated tank, it flowed in a 27-inch pipeline (ø 686 mm) to the pottery.

The funicular was used in the construction of the Bulkeley Hill Reservoir and aqueduct to negotiate some 105 m elevation gain. There are three protective switches to automatically derail carts that have gotten out of control. At the bottom station there are five reused Lancashire boilers as diesel storage tanks for the pumps.

  • Protection point in the lower area, view uphill

  • Steep stretch halfway, from the side

  • Mountain station, view uphill

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cheshire West and Chester: Public Map Viewer. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  2. ^ Henrys Adventures: Cheshire's Steepest Railway - The Bulkley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway. ( CC BY 3.0 ) Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  3. ^ Roger Foden: The Peckforton 'Railway'. South Cheshire Harriers, Newsletter, June 2009.
  4. ↑ a b Bulkeley Hill Tramway.
  5. ↑ Tarboat: Waterworks railway.
  6. ↑ David Kitching: Bulkeley boilers: Old Lancashire boilers in use as storage tanks at the Bulkeley waterworks.

Coordinates: 53 ° 5  '34.1 " N , 2 ° 42' 24.1"  W.