The Peak District area of England has yielded limestone products
since around the time of the Romans and by 1794 the Peak Forest
Tramway arrived to help transport products further afield. By the
time the Midland Railway arrived in the Buxton area in the 1860s,
limestone and stone traffic was booming by rail. Even now large
tonnages of raw limestone, aggregates and cement are dispatched all
over the UK. This book illustrates some of these traffic flows,
both past and present, and how they have changed locomotives and
wagons. Some of these traffic flows are long-standing ones such as
the Tunstead to Northwich, whereas others are more recent and
short-term spot hire traffic. Privatisation in the mid-1990s saw
EWS dominate the main flows but now DB Cargo, Freightliner Heavy
Haul and GBRf all vie for lucrative flows from the four main
rail-served quarries.
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