Re: Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway

The top part of the Leek and Manifold for unknown reasons became a narrow motor road, while the lower stretches became a pedestrian path, but the division has never been clearly delineated.

At the top end the motor road goes through a narrow tunnel (just like Gold Camp Road in Colorado) but this opens out into a fairly large car park in which you can double back through 180 degrees to then exit to a T-junction on the local road network. This unusual road layout used to regularly feature on night navigation motor rallies when it could be regularly relied on to lose at least half the entry.

The Harz Mountain railways still make regular use of transporter wagons.

Bob Gartside