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Park Plantation Tramway

Park Plantation Quarry Tramway

Hidden away in the forestry above Bank Foot is a tramway incline that served the sandstones quarries higher on Greenhow Bank. It first appears on the 1893 OS 25 inch map.

Blocks of sandstone would have been lowered down to a siding by the Rosedale Ironstone railway. I guess here a bridge was built to allow the incline to pass carrying an existing track. The line of the incline can be followed quite easily.

At the first of the quarries, at about 230m asl, I came across a block of dressed sandstone with holding down bolts.

The lowest of these quarries is at 230m level. Here the incline branches, one climbs to a quarry at 330m level, the main incline to one at 290m. The 330m quarry was the subject of a post in 2015.

It is tempting to assume that these quarries, which seem to have been used entirely for building stone were operated by the Ingleby Ironstone & Freestone Company which built the original three mile long narrow gauge line to their ironstone mine at Rudd Scar. However, that mine was abandoned in 1860. Their narrow gauge railway had by then been upgraded to standard gauge by the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway.

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    Regular reader, John, has found this piece in the London Gazette …..
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25299/page/6651/data.htm ………

    which refers to the quarry’s sale in 1883. The incline seems to be referred to as Wren’s Incline, no idea who Wren was.

    TO be sold, pursuant to an order of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, made in an action, Noble v. Cozon, 1882, N. No. 1571, with the approbation of Mr. Justice Chitty, by Mr. Henry Bewsher Slee, the person appointed by the said Judge, at the Turf Hotel, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1884, at three o’clock in the afternoon, in one lot:—

    Certain leasehold stone quarries, known as the Park Wood or Ingleby Freestone Quarries, situate at Ingleby Greenhow, in the North Riding of the county of York, forming part of the freestone strata in the Cleveland Hills, including certain veins and seams of ironstone or iron ore and coal, under about 200 acres of land, together also with the brick, clay, and all the freestone in and upon the same lands, and together with twelve cottages, situate at the foot of Wren’s Incline, all in the occupation of the Ingleby Stone Quarry Company, and together with the fixed and loose plant, tools, dressed stone, blacksmiths’ shop, offices, stables, railway incline and siding, all which properties are held under lease, dated 25th November, 1876, for the term of 10 years, from the 1st January, 1877.

    Particulars and conditions of sale may be had (gratis) of the following Solicitors:— Messrs. Trotter, Bruce, and Trotter, Bishop Auckland; Messrs. Clayton and Gibson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and, in London, of Messrs. Shum, Grossman, Grossman, and Prichard, 16, Theobald’s-road, Gray’s-inn; and Messrs. Cookson, Wainwright, and Pennington, 6, New-square, Lincoln’s-inn; of the Auctioneer; and at the place of sale.

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