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DISUSED RAILWAY - LongDENDALE - SA&MR - 1845

12/6/2015

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We went walking on 7 June 2015 down the Longdendale valley which is East of Manchester.

The name means 'long wooded valley' and now contains a chain of six reservoirs.

Part of our walk was along a disused railway line which was opened in 1845. It was originally built by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne & Manchester Railway (SA&MR).
 
In 1847 the company merged with the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway, the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway and the Grimsby Docks Company to form the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway.

In 1897 the Company  again changed its name to the Great Central Railway (GCR) before ownership passed to the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923 and finally to British Railways in 1948.

The line closed in 1981.
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A small stone bridge takes the line over what must have been a farm track, we walked here up the hill across fields full of lambs from the reservoir you can see in the distance before heading East down the main line. After a few miles we left the line of the old railway and headed back down the hill and circled the reservoirs ant-clockwise on our way back to the car.
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A road bridge crosses the old line
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Heading along the side of the valley into the hills.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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