signal levers, Hartington
These colourful railway signals are in the very-well maintained old signal box on the Tissington Trail near Hartington in the Peak District; this used to be an important rail link, forming the Buxton to Ashbourne railway line, and is now a popular cycle track through the Derbyshire countryside. Opened in 1899, in its heyday it carried express trains from Manchester to London and until after the Second World War a daily train delivered milk from Peak District farms to London.
An offshoot, the High Peak Trail, was the Cromford and High Peak Railway, acting as a freight feeder to the Peak Forest canal which it joined at Bugsworth Basin.
And you can get ice-creams from the ground floor of this signal box!
signal levers, Hartington
These colourful railway signals are in the very-well maintained old signal box on the Tissington Trail near Hartington in the Peak District; this used to be an important rail link, forming the Buxton to Ashbourne railway line, and is now a popular cycle track through the Derbyshire countryside. Opened in 1899, in its heyday it carried express trains from Manchester to London and until after the Second World War a daily train delivered milk from Peak District farms to London.
An offshoot, the High Peak Trail, was the Cromford and High Peak Railway, acting as a freight feeder to the Peak Forest canal which it joined at Bugsworth Basin.
And you can get ice-creams from the ground floor of this signal box!