Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

Swinden Limeworks

Swinden Limeworks is still in use today, and is the terminus of the former Yorkshire Dales Railway that continued on to Grassington & Threshfield.


(C) David Hey collection
BR Standard Class 4 75014 (or 19 - not clear from the picture, but thought to be the former) leaves Swinden Limeworks (visible in the background) for Embsay Junction, sometime shortly before the end of BR steam. The Grassington branch was amongst the last lines worked solely by steam, and attracted enthusiasts in its latter days from all over the place.
(c) David Hey collection.
(C) David Hey
A pair of BR Class 31s prepare to depart for Skipton with a loaded Tilcon train in the mid 1980s.
(c) David Hey.
(c) David Hey collection
The quarry's 08 seen in the very industrial setting.
(c) David Hey collection.

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