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Hawes Water Troughs |
| site name:- |
Settle and Carlisle Railway |
| civil parish:- |
Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
railway water troughs |
| coordinates:- |
SD78129101 (about) |
| 1Km square:- |
SD7891 |
| 10Km square:- |
SD79 |
| SummaryText:- |
Installed 1907. |
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Water troughs were installed here in 1907, south of the station, the highest in the
world. Surface drainage was collected in a reservoir which fed a 43000 gallon storage
tank. The troughs were steam heated. The location was one of the few sections of the
line that are level, and water was needed by locomotives after the drag up the 1 in
100 gradients from north and south.
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In the long freeze of January 1963 the water troughs froze solid. Freezing was not
unusual; maintenance men had to hack the ice with picks and lift it out with shovels.
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The troughs were removed in the 1950s.
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