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The former station at Small Knowle End, which is now an HQ for the NW and Midlands Traincrew Depot.
©Roger May
Dist:0.3km<br/>In those days some heavy stone trains required a shove up the hill. A light locomotive known as a banker was used to push the train up the steepest part of the incline. Here the engine is seen waiting at Peak Forest for the next freight requiring a push.
©roger geach
Dist:0.3km<br/>Misty watching the trains at Peak Forest. Class 66s 66048 and 66059 are two of the loco's on view.
©Paul Bridge
Dist:0.3km<br/>View in the general direction of Tunstead quarry.
©Alan Heardman
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©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.4km<br/>Class 60 locomotives 60 012 & 60 033 await their next turn of duty at the Peak Forest Railhead.
©Wilson Adams
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.4km<br/>The house on the left used to be the Midland Hotel.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.4km<br/>Small Knowle End is between Smalldale and Peak Dale,this quarry is now disused.England flags are well in evidence, as the 2010 World Cup is only nine days off.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.4km<br/>Class 60 locomotives 60 088(L) & 60 067(R) stabled at the former Peak Forest Station, now a train crew depot
©Wilson Adams
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©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.6km<br/>Given the size of the quarries between Dove Holes and Peak Dale, I imagine that they get through quite a lot of fuel - fuel in, stone out.
©M J Richardson
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©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.7km<br/>The view off the railway bridge at Peak Forest looking towards the quarry. The class 37s are shunting four wagons onto the rest of the train which is out of view back in the quarry.
©roger geach
Dist:0.7km<br/>One of two small barrows on this hilltop; it's a low-lying bowl barrow of late Neolithic or early Bronze age, and was probably excavated in 1846, although the records aren't clear on this matter.
©Richard Law

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