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English: Disused railway, Harrington, West Cumbria Traffic on the Harrington & Lowca Light Railway was mainly minerals but passengers were carried between 1913 and 1926. This is the site of the former Rosehill Archer Street station where southbound trains were faced with a cruel 285 yds at 1 in 17. In bad weather trains had to set back towards Church Road in order to have a run at the bank. It was the steepest gradient in Britain to have carried adhesion worked passenger trains. |
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| Author | Ralph Rawlinson |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Ralph Rawlinson and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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| current | 14:39, 30 January 2010 | | 640 × 427 (140 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Disused railway, Harrington, West Cumbria. Traffic on the Harrington & Lowca Light Railway was mainly minerals but passengers were carried between 1913 and 1926. This is the site of the former Rose |
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