This huge chalk pit needed a way of getting the chalk from the pit to the lime kilns to process it. The road, using horse and cart, could not carry enough and so an incline railway was built to take the chalk down to the boats and a wharf made alongside a brand new cut which led to the river Ouse.
This old map shows the cut and the tramway
This is the most detail I could get
Looking towards the pit with the cut in the foreground
You can see the huge brick bulkhead that held the tunnels of the incline railway
The tunnel entrances, dated as 1805
Looking up the tunnel, the loaded wagon would pull the empty one up
The wharf was to my right and the cut led to the river
This old map shows the cut and the tramway
This is the most detail I could get
Looking towards the pit with the cut in the foreground
You can see the huge brick bulkhead that held the tunnels of the incline railway
The tunnel entrances, dated as 1805
Looking up the tunnel, the loaded wagon would pull the empty one up
The wharf was to my right and the cut led to the river
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This huge chalk pit needed a way of getting the chalk from the pit to the lime kilns to process it.
The lime kilns where in the chalk pits
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