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Dist:0.2km<br/>This branch of the North Staffordshire Railway was built in the early 1900s to serve the limestone quarries at Caldon Low. Although it is currently disused, the track has not been removed and the line is technically only "mothballed". A passenger service also ran down a branch to Waterhouses, where it linked with the Manifold Light Railway. The house, to the left, is called Station House and is at the location of Winkhill Halt. The white tower in the background is the cement works at Cauldon Lowe.
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:0.2km<br/>Here, the Staffordshire Moorlands district begins to live up to its name.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the 273 metre spot height.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>No longer mothballed as in [[423603]], but used by the Churnet Valley Railway.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>In 2010, the Cauldon Lowe Branch Line was restored and reopened. A series of gala events were held to celebrate, including a diesel gala. The train in the picture is just passing through the site of Winkhill Station. Cauldon Cement Works is in the background.
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:0.3km<br/>Roads meet on the bridge over the disused railway to Waterhouses. The modern signpost is informative, but much less attractive than its traditional forebears.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>On the Cauldon Lowe branch, now used by the Churnet Valley Railway.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Anthony Parkes
Dist:0.3km<br/>No longer overgrown as in [[458539]] because it is used by the Churnet Valley Railway.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>A landscape like a national flag.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.4km<br/>The former Leek to Waterhouses branch of the North Staffordshire Railway. This had lost its passenger service before Beeching, but contued to serve the quarrying industries until the 1990s. All the track is still in situ, but nature is taking over.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km<br/>A view of the farm from a passing train (hence the smoke).
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.7km<br/>Casey is probably a corruption of "causey" or "causeway", implying that this was once a paved pack-horse way.
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:0.7km<br/>A solitary horse was being followed round the field by four sheep. It could of course have easily outrun them, but they all seemed to be enjoying the game.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.8km<br/>Bridge 29 on the restored Leekbrook Junction to Cauldon Lowe line crosses a break in the embankment for farm access.
©Ian Calderwood

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