Road End Adit, Honister Slate Mine, Buttermere, Cumbria

Road End Adit, Honister Slate Mine, Buttermere, Cumbria

Photograph taken June 1997 © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: AA97/04762

Mines and quarries were the first sites to use railways. The railway runs from the mine entrance to the tipping point.

Location

Cumbria Buttermere

Period

1990s (1990 - 1999)

Themes

Several steam trains standing at the station platforms, with the Victorian station buildings in the background.Slough Station booking hall, booking office and travel centre were built in 1882. The Great Western Railway from London to Bristol was built in the 1830s and the first Slough Station opened in 1840. The present station is the fifth one and was built when the number of lines was increased.

Transport - Rail

Tags

mine quarry railway derelict slate 1990s (1990 - 1999)