Category: Hunt Cliff

  • Hunt Cliff — Victorian Engineering Meets Geological Indifference

    Hunt Cliff — Victorian Engineering Meets Geological Indifference

    It is endlessly surprising—though it really should not be—how absurdly fragile this stretch of the old Cleveland Railway remains, teetering along the edge of Hunt Cliff as though daring gravity to intervene. Originally built between 1865 and 1867, its grand purpose was to move ironstone from Loftus to the blast furnaces east of Middlesbrough. Rather…