New Siding Really Happening

For many, many months now I have been quietly working with the owners of the stone quarries at Helwith Bridge and with Network Rail and others on the idea of re-connecting them to the railway.

It is great to see things coming to fruition.   Here are the latest pictures:

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 The line of the track can now be seen clearly as dumper trucks reverse down a hill to dump stone in front of a bulldozer which is leveling off the track bed

 Arcow Quarry manager Mick Lambert surveys what will soon become his new train set.

Part of Arcow Quarry seen from what will soon be a public viewing platform.   The blue lagoon is water accumulating in the quarry whilst the rail-head is being constructed.   Normally this water would be pumped out but that has been halted to keep the railway work-site dry.

The quarry's output crusher is temporarily deployed producing aggregate of a suitable size for the work in hand.   Here it is producing large lumps of stone for drainage works.