Arkwright Town Junction is a former railway junction near
Arkwright Town
Arkwright Town, commonly referred to as Arkwright, is a village in Sutton cum Duckmanton, North East Derbyshire, England, that is notable for having moved its location in the early 1990s.Metropolitan Housing Trust stakeholders' newsletter, Octob ...
in
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
, England.
Arkwright Town Junction(2) on ''flickr''
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Context
Arkwright Town Junction was one of four interrelated junctions built by the GCR to connect its main line
Mainline, ''Main line'', or ''Main Line'' may refer to:
Transportation
Railway
* Main line (railway), the principal artery of a railway system
* Main line railway preservation, the practice of operating preserved trains on an operational railw ...
to the LD&ECR's main line when it took the latter company over in 1907. The junctions are usually referred to collectively as "Duckmanton Junction" or occasionally as "Duckmanton Junctions."
Description
The four junctions operated interactively, so they are described together in the article Duckmanton Junction to which the reader is referred.
References
External links
Arkwright Town Junction: old OS map via ''npemap''
{{coord, 53, 13, 55.42, N, 1, 21, 7.84, W, type:landmark_region:GB-DBY, display=title
Rail junctions in England
Rail transport in Derbyshire
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway structures