An obvious drawback with trains is that they can't get up and down slopes. An experiment carried out in the Goyt Valley over 150 years ago tried to solve this problem. The post Fell’s Experimental Railway appeared first on Goyt Valley.| Goyt Valley
A grainy photo of a building half-way down the Bunsall Incline has always intrigued me. A recently discovered map from around 1855 shows it marked as a cottage, lying opposite a long-lost engine house.| Goyt Valley
Many theories have been proposed for the mysterious, mile-long earthwork between Watford and Longhill Farms. Was it for a large gun, a railway test track, or perhaps an abandoned turnpike extension?| Goyt Valley
A 1918 photo taken from Goyt's Lane towards Goytshead Farm comes frustratingly close to revealing a second set of stepping stones close to the packhorse bridge in Goyt's Bridge.| Goyt Valley
