![]() Now Junction for Ffarquhar, extensive Stone Traffic by Ffarquhar Quarry Company. Small Town Pop 2,000 Farming, fishing, fowling. Opened in 1912 following the agreement made in that year to amalgamate the Tidmouth Knapford and Elsbridge Railway (TK&E) to form the Tidmouth Wellsworth and Suddery Railway. Similar to Wellsworth, a quiet seaside town. Large modern hospital which serves whole Island, a pleasant Seaside town. The signal box here controls entry to and from the Branch to Suddery and Brendam. The TW&S was a coastal line, often no more than 20 ft above sea level. The Sodor & Mainland (S&M) and the Tidmouth Wellsworth and Suddery (TW&S). Gordon's Hill linked the two main standard gauge lines in the area. A new loco named Gordon stalled here in 1922 and thus the name. Banking engines use the station cross over for the run back to Wellsworth.Ĭronk and Maron are 280ft above Suddery Junction and so there are 5 miles with a ruling gradient of 1 in 75. The station is a compulsory stop for all Down, loose coupled and unfitted goods trains for brakes to be pinned down. A Motorail Terminal was opened here in 1977. In 1967 a ballast processing plant and distribution centre was set up by the Arlesdale Ballast & Granite Co. Four passenger trains a day continue along the Peel Godred Branch, hauled by electric locomotives. An hourly (half hourly at peak times) service is provided. Since the building of the railway, Killdane is virtually a suburb of Cronk. ![]() They have been expanded since 1925 and are now able to tackle any locomotive rebuilding or overhaul. In 1915 the NWR established repair shops here. In 1922 a second bore was cut to provide a double track. ![]() During construction a mid section collapsed leaving 2 tunnels (the western 1 mile and the Eastern 450 yards). Speed and cheapness of construction were important and so a single bore was cut. The NWR was built as a strategic Railway in time of emergency (1915). In 1915 the NWR built their Headquarters here but in after the 1925 agreement there was no longer need of it and in 1927/8 it was closed and a much smaller replacement was built for the locomotives operating the car ferry service. Until the construction of the Jubilee Road Bridge in 1977 The NWR had rights of car-ferry and worked an intensive and profitable service.īR have running powers over the Bridge to operate the joint NWR/BR suburban Service to Norramby as agreed with LMS in 1925. There is a Schertzer Rolling lift Bridge of 120ft Span and double track, designed by Mr Topham Hatt and erected in 1915. There is also a joint goods yard for exchange traffic. Since 1925 the NWR has also had its own loco shed, turntable and servicing facility here. For through trains, engines from the NWR are detached and BR engines take over. The NWR have had running powers into Barrow Central Station since the agreement with the LMS in 1925. In 1948 it became the North Western Region of BR but this term is never used as the railway kept its operating independence and with privatisation in the early 1990s it is once again officially the North Western Railway! The track is not owned by a separate concern, but by the same company as on the Isle of Wight. ![]() The Wellsworth and Suddery (1870-1914) Crosby - Brendam with extension from Crosby to Knapford in 1912 to amalgamate with TK&E.(Knapford & Elsbridge till 1908 when line extended to Tidmouth) The Tidmouth Knapford & Elsbridge (1883-1914) Tidmouth - Elsbridge.The Sodor & Mainland (1853-1914) Ballahoo - Kirkronan.A government-sponsored amalgamation of the standard gauge railways in the Island occurred in 1914 as a strategic railway for coastal defence.
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