Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

Kit Hill Quarry Incline embankment near the incline head.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

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Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

Kit Hill Quarry Railway stone sleeper block with minature binocular case for scale

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

View to the incline head from the incline. This section is 1 in 5.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. This view was taken before the course of the incline was cleared. It is now a public path. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales. The incline was converted to standard gauge during the 1930s. The East Cornwall Mineral Railway with which it connected at Downgate Sidings had been converted to standard gauge around 1907/8 later becoming part of the London South Western Railway, later Southern Railway.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

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Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

Machinery loadings at Kit Hill Quarry. The Quarry closed in the mid 1950s

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - October 05, 1985

The working face and just visible the deep flooded pit reported to be 100 feet deep.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August 1990

Machinery loadings at Kit Hill Quarry

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August, 1990

View from the near the base of the Kit Hill Quarry incline showing the change in gradient from 1 in 8 to 1 in 5. The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales. The incline was converted to standard gauge during the 1930s. The East Cornwall Mineral Railway with which it connected at Downgate Sidings had been converted to standard gauge around 1907/8 later becoming part of the London South Western Railway, later Southern Railway.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August, 1990

The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales. The incline was converted to standard gauge during the 1930s. The East Cornwall Mineral Railway with which it connected at Downgate Sidings had been converted to standard gauge around 1907/8 later becoming part of the London South Western Railway, later Southern Railway. This view looking down the incline towards Downgate Sidings (now a car park) is taken from just above where the gradient changes.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August, 1990

The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales. The incline was converted to standard gauge during the 1930s. The East Cornwall Mineral Railway with which it connected at Downgate Sidings had been converted to standard gauge around 1907/8 later becoming part of the London South Western Railway, later Southern Railway.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August, 1990

The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. This view is taken looking down the incline. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales.

Kit Hill Quarry, Callington, Cornwall - August, 1990

View down the Kit Hill Quarry Incline from the incline head. The Kit Hill Quarry Incline Plane was constructed to link Kit Hill Quarries with the 3ft 6in gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway which opened in 1872. It was a self acting gravity incline with a gradient of 1 in 5 at its head and 1 in 8 at the foot. The incline was 1600 feet long. The incline was single track below the crossing place, above there was a shared centre rail, not unlike the arrangement which exists on the lower section of the Great Orme Tramway in Wales.