Paul Steane's Photography Pages

288/639
Home / Keywords Englandx + Disused Railwayx /

Hopton incline

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshowShow file metadatadownload
20200905_143100.jpg Hopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown StreetHopton Wood winding engine boilerThumbnailsLiverpool Crown Street

Looking westwards up Hopton incline. This incline was eased from about 1 in 8 to 1 in 14 in around 1877, which enabled locomotives to take over from the previous winding engine. This was reportedly the steepest stretch of conventional, adhesion-worked standard gauge railway running line in the UK.