30th April 1967

Stephenson Locomotive Society (Midland Area)
Farewell to the Former L.N.W.R.'s Cromford & High Peak Railway

Locos Used 68006 & 68012
Stock Used 6x brake vans

Route :

Loco(s) Stock Used Route
68006 + 68012 6x brake vans

Middleton Top - half way up Hopton Incline (2)
68006 + 68012 6x brake vans

half way up Hopton Incline - bottom of Hopton Incline
68006 + 68012 3x brake vans

bottom of Hopton Incline - top of Hopton Incline
68006 + 68012 3x brake vans

bottom of Hopton Incline - top of Hopton Incline
68006 + 68012 6x brake vans

top of Hopton Incline - Longcliffe (C&HPR)
68006 + 68012 6x brake vans (C&HPR) Longcliffe - Middleton Top

Notes:
(1) A total of three round trips are reported to have been made on this date to mark the closure of the line between Middleton Top and Friden. It is recorded that the Anglo-Norse Society also travelled over the same section on this date - as the SLS was given as organising/sponsoring the first round trip (listed above), were the other two operated for/by the ANS?
(2) Train stalled and ran back to the bottom of the incline and the train split and tripped to the top of the incline in two trips of 3x brake vans each.

Sources : Mike Morant & John Debens

Photo Review


68012 & 68006 at the bottom of Hopton Incline, complete with headboard.
(photo: The Mike Morant Collection)


From The John Debens Ticket Collection.


 Back to "The Railtour Files"