Stainmore Summit and Bleathgill Cutting

26th October 2008

These photographs were taken on 26th October 2008 at Stainmore Summit then heading west towards Barras and Kirkby Stephen East. The Summit was 1370 feet above sea level and had a passing place with a signal box.
Today if you look at the Summit you would never know a railway passed here,but if you look the other way you would think the track had just been lifted.All these photographs were taken within a few hundred yards of each other.This bit of the line is next to, and some of it is on, the A66 dual carrigeway.

View looking east at the Summit,the fence in the distance is the only clue that a railway ever passed here.	View looking east towards Bowes.	View from the trackbed looking east.	View from the trackbed looking west.
View looking west with the A66 on the right.	View looking west were the trackbed is still in place.	Platelayers hut.	Platelayers hut and embankment.
Looking west at bridge No101.	Bridge No101.	View looking south at bridge No101.	Platlayers hut near to bridge No101.