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The old engine shed at Middleton Top, close to Cromford and Wirksworth in Derbyshire.
This was built in 1829 by the Butterley Company to haul railway trucks up the Cromford Incline and onto the Cromford and High Peak railway line on their route towards Buxton and Whaley Bridge.
The engine house is still intact containing its pair of beam engines and boilers and was used to pull the trucks up a 253 foot incline to reach a height of almost 1000 feet above sea level, and worked until the closure of the line in 1963.
Following renovation by the Middleton Engine Group after the closure of the line the shed along with winding wheel and incline have been given scheduled ancient monument status. A link to the English Heritage site for this building: www.ancientmonuments.info/endr180-middleton-top-winding-e...

Taken in: UK / England / Derbyshire Dales District / Middleton-by-Wirksworth (show map)

Taken on: April 8, 2014

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