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Railway De-railments
The Stanhope and Tyne railway was built to transport Limestone and ironstone from Weardale. A few stretches were
worked by locomotives, but the majority of the line was on inclines. To get the limestone and ironstone up the
incline a winding engine and rope workings were used.
It is on these inclines that most of the de-railments happened, the weight in the wagons was too much for the
winding engine to cope with and the cables snapped leaving the wagons to role back down the incline. Bolts Law incline was notorious for de-re-railments.
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