_DSC.0145 - Blakedean, Calderdale, West Yorkshire

Difficult to believe that in 1901 a wooden trestle bridge carried a narrow gauge railway across this valley. The railway took workers from a shanty town "Dawson City" near Heptonstall to the construction sites of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs (3), about 5 miles away. The footings for the bridge still remain in the valley below, just out of shot

 

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