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Stainmore Summit is the
Photographs of the summit railway
* {{cite web, url=http://www.evr.org.uk/stainmore_summit.htm, title=More photographs of the summit, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112040240/http://www.evr.org.uk/stainmore_summit.htm, archivedate=12 January 2007
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Rail transport in Cumbria Mountains under 1000 metres Mountains and hills of the Pennines Eden District
Stainmore Summit is the highest point
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on the trans- Pennine South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway
The South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton & Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore S ...
, also known as the ''Stainmore Railway'' in Northern England
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. Located on Stainmore
Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name is used for a civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, including the villages of North Stainmore and South ...
between Barras Barras may refer to:
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and Bowes
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stations, the railway over the summit was the highest in England at until its closure in 1962. The location was marked by a famous cast-iron
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sign which is now preserved at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum
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.
Whilst there wasn't a station at Stainmore, trains did halt here to let relatives of the railway workers on and off the trains to enable them to get transported off the summit. The railway had several cottages at the summit.
This pass is commonly referred to by geographers as the Stainmore Gap.
References
External links
Photographs of the summit railway
* {{cite web, url=http://www.evr.org.uk/stainmore_summit.htm, title=More photographs of the summit, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112040240/http://www.evr.org.uk/stainmore_summit.htm, archivedate=12 January 2007
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Rail transport in Cumbria Mountains under 1000 metres Mountains and hills of the Pennines Eden District