The Cromford and High Peak Railway was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge. The railway, which was completed in 1831
Bunsall Incline in the Goyt Valley, now converted to a road
Middleton Incline today
The Ashbourne line in relation to the C&HPR
Engine shed at top of Sheep Pasture Incline, 1949
High Peak Trail
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The High Peak Trail is a 17-mile trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders in the Peak District of England. Running from Dowlow, near Buxton, to High Peak Junction, Cromford, it follows the trackbe
Cromford and High Peak Railway
…worked inclines. Due to falling traffic, the entire railway was closed by 1967. The remains of the line, between Dowlow and Cromford, has now become the High Peak Trail, a route on the National Cycle Network. The Peak District of Derbyshire has always posed problems for travel, but from 1800 when the Peak Forest Canal…
Looking down Sheep Pasture Incline
The cycle-hire centre at Parsley Hay on a busy August weekend
The trail passing under the A515 at Newhaven Tunnel