Rails to the Reservoirs

At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George Greenwood to build the amazing bridge, 700ft long and made of pitch pine. Carriages packed with navvies on their way to work and three locomotives on the line bear witness to the confidence placed in the towering structure which withstood snow, sleet, hail and gale force winds before being demolished in 1912. Only stumps of the stone foundations now remain. Code no 131 ALGC.

Read the full story in Milltown Memories, issue 8.
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