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The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850. It was subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people. [1] [2] In 1948, the shelters were sealed off from the public. [3] The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters have been open to the public since 1996 as part of the town's museum service. [1]
Each company was to provide an equal amount of capital and four representatives to the joint management committee. This arrangement was confirmed by the Great Northern Railway (Cheshire Lines) Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. cxlvii); this was the first official use of Cheshire Lines and at the time it was entirely appropriate as the majority of the lines involved were in Cheshire.
Stockport Tiviot Dale was one of two main railway stations serving the town of Stockport, Cheshire, England; the other being Stockport Edgeley, which is now simply referred to as Stockport. It was a stop on the Cheshire Lines Committee-operated Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway line. Tiviot Dale was named after Teviotdale in ...
Tunnel Number 6, or the Summit Tunnel, is a railway tunnel between Santa Margarita, California and San Luis Obispo, California. [2] It is the longest tunnel along the Union Pacific Railroad Coast Line at 3,610 feet (1.10 km) in length and is wide enough to carry a single track . [ 3 ]
The nearest railway station to High Lane is Middlewood, which is on the Buxton line connecting Manchester Piccadilly and Stockport with Buxton. Northern Trains operates a generally hourly service in each directions. [6] The very long Disley Tunnel, on the Hope Valley line, passes underneath the village. [7]
The first section of the line, between Huddersfield and Stalybridge, was opened by the Manchester, Stockport and Leeds Railway on 1 August 1849. [5] The line became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after 1923. [6] The route was furnished with an additional two tracks in 1894, thus giving four tracks between Stalybridge and Leeds.
The station is positioned at high level above the valley of the River Mersey and with lifts that link a pedestrian underpass to central Stockport and Edgeley.. The station is staffed, has a ticket office and ticket machines, customer service points, shops, toilets, waiting rooms, lifts from the station subway and step-free access to the platforms.
Dove Holes Tunnel is a tunnel built by the Midland Railway between Peak Forest Signal Box and Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire in 1860–64, now carrying the Great Rocks Line. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway was jointly leased by the LNWR and Midland Railway , and ran as far as Rowsley .