Steeple Grange Light Railway
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.jpg) Ruston & Hornsby diesel locomotive of the Horwich Railway Works
(year of construction 1957, works no. 416214) with NCB cars from the Bevercotes Colliery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.png) Route
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| Route length: | 0.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 457 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 37 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Steeple Grange Light Railway (SGLR) is a 800-meter-long narrow gauge - museum railway with a track width of 457 millimeters (18 inches ) in Wirksworth in Derbyshire , United Kingdom . Take their works railway - locomotives and cars from British mines , gravel pits and steelworks .
Route
The line was built in 1985 on the former Killer's Branch Line from Steeple House Junction on the Cromford and High Peak Railway and Middleton Quarry in Derbyshire. There is a steep section with a 3.7 percent (1:27) incline from the rear end of the locomotive shed to halfway to the Killer's Branch.
Locomotives
There are two operational locomotives for passenger trains, two for track construction and many that are still being restored:
Greenbat
Greenbat is a 1.5 ton and 5 HP battery locomotive of the Trammer type, which was built by Greenwood & Batley in Leeds . It actually had a foldable cab so that it could also be used in low mine shafts. It was ordered by a steel mill that specifically insisted that the cab was not foldable. Greenbat was never used underground in various steelworks.
ZM32 Horwich
Horwich is the only remaining 18-inch Ruston & Hornsby locomotive . It was used by British Railways in the Horwich depot in Lancashire and later exhibited next to Wren in the National Railway Museum in York . It was later sold to a banana plantation in South America. It was mothballed in Liverpool Docks until it was acquired by the Gloddfa Ganol Museum in Wales . There it was re-gauged to 610 millimeters (2 feet) and completely overhauled to be operational. When the Gloddfa Ganol Museum was closed, the locomotive was acquired by a member of the SGLR Association, equipped with an air brake and regrounded to 18 inches.
Hudson
This locomotive, built in 1988 by SGLR, is quite unusual. It was built from a manrider from the Ladywash Mine near Eyam in Derbyshire. It has a Villiers engine and a gearbox from a cricket pitch reel.
Claytons
Three privately owned Clayton battery locomotives are used on the museum railway: L10 (factory no. 5431 from January 1968) and L16 Peggy (factory no. B0109B from March 1973) are 1.8 t heavy, 7 hp low-profile locomotives. Lady Marjorie is also a 1.8 t, 7 hp Clayton locomotive with a barn roof designed for use in 4 foot (1.22 m) diameter sewer pipes. It has an electronic thyristor speed control instead of the conventional series resistors.
Ladywash Mine No. 6
This 3 ton, 10 hp Greenwood & Batley locomotive was acquired from the Ladywash Mine near Eyam in Derbyshire.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Steeple Grange Light Railway . Retrieved March 6, 2009.
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 44.2 " N , 1 ° 34 ′ 15.2" W.