Corkickle Brake (Incline), Whitehaven

Corkickle Brake (Incline), Whitehaven

Part of the Albright & Wilson Ltd. internal railway system at their Marchon Works, closed on 31 October 1986 and reputed to be the last commercially operated standard gauge cable worked incline in Britain. The Corkickle Brake was constructed in 1881 by the Earl of Lonsdale's Whitehaven Colliery Company to handle the output from Croft Pit.
ROMA ID: 101566E

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