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Title: Claughton Brickworks Ropeway Post by: grahame on November 12, 2024, 20:01:13 Not sure if this belongs on the Coffee Shop - and if it does, whether the the place for it is "Heritage" because it is still there or "History" because you can't travel on it.
As its the last one in the country, I'm not setting a precedent ... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=451556697771193 Quote In Claughton, Lancashire, the Forterra brickworks produces 50 million bricks a year, from shale that's quarried a mile and a half away. To get that shale to the brickworks: the last aerial ropeway in the country. These used to be common: but now, the last one will be gone by 2036. Title: Re: Claughton Brickworks Ropeway Post by: Chris from Nailsea on November 12, 2024, 20:09:45 No, I couldn't do that - acrophobia, again. ::)
Title: Re: Claughton Brickworks Ropeway Post by: Oxonhutch on November 12, 2024, 21:29:41 Where it crosses an 'A' road there is a bridge built underneath to prevent anything dropping from height onto traffic below.
Title: Re: Claughton Brickworks Ropeway Post by: CyclingSid on November 13, 2024, 16:13:33 I think I can remember the ropeway that used to take clay to Grovelands Brickworks in Tilehurst (Reading). There is a picture of a reading bus or trolley going underneath it, but can't locate it at the moment.
Some of the mines in Cornwall used ropeways. A couple of pictures in Peter Stanier's Mines in Cornwall and Devon (Twelveheads Press) Title: Re: Claughton Brickworks Ropeway Post by: eightonedee on November 13, 2024, 16:57:57 Quote I think I can remember the ropeway that used to take clay to Grovelands Brickworks in Tilehurst (Reading). There is a picture of a reading bus or trolley going underneath it, but can't locate it at the moment. This link to something on Reading Museum's website might help Sid - http://collections.readingmuseum.org.uk/index.asp?page=topic&mwsquery={topic}={Brick%20and%20Tile%20makers} From this, I'd guess that the picture was of a trolleybus on Norcot Hill, which seems to be on the route of the ropeway (which I cannot remember, although I would have been 10 by the time the works closed in 1966). This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |