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Yarlside
Yarlside is a hill in the Howgill Fells, Cumbria (historically Westmorland), England. This fell is not to be confused with the Yarlside area near Barrow-in-Furness, once served by the Yarlside Iron Mines tramway. That lies to the west. Nor should it be confused with Great Yarlside and Little Yarlside on the eastern fringes of the Lake District, to the northwest. Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales Marilyns of England Hewitts of England Nuttalls Ravenstonedale {{Cumbria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarlside Iron Mines Tramway
The Yarlside Iron Mines tramway or Parkhouse Mineral Railway was built as a one-mile (1.6 km) long innovative railway from the Parkhouse Haematite Ore Mines to the Roose railway station on the Furness Railway, then in North Lancashire, now in Cumbria, England. Similar to a monorail, it had stabilising side rollers, invented and patented by John Barraclough Fell. The Yarlside area near Barrow-in-Furness served by this railway is unrelated to Yarlside Fell, which is to the east. History Yarlside Iron Mines tramway John Barraclough Fell designed and built in 1868 the original ''Yarlside Iron Mines tramway'' as a horse drawn monorail from an exchange siding at the Furness Railway to the Yarlside Iron Mines.Martin and Jean NorgateYarlside Iron Mines tramway, other name: Parkhouse Mineral Railway Geography Department, Portsmouth University, 2014. Parkhouse Tramway Two years later, in 1870, John Barraclough Fell replaced it with another experimental narrow gauge railway lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
