Aerial Ropeway
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Name :
Operating Co. :
Location :
County :
Country :
NGR / From :
NGR / To :
Map :
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Belmont Mine
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. 4
Guisborough
Yorkshire, North
England
NZ 612 141 Picking
belts
NZ 616 145 Return
Station
OS 'Outdoor Leisure' 1:25,000
Sheet 26
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Material Transported :
Ropeway Type :
Installed / Commissioned :
Decommissioned / Removed :
Manufacturer :
Motive Power / Size :
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Shale waste
Monocable
1914-15
1
1933 3
White and Sons of
Widnes 2
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Comments
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/ References
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Ran several hundred yards from picking belts to the west of the mine.2
- Towers are stated to be
triangular in plan 2 [But
photo on p.85 clearly shows them to be square
- as confirmed during site visit 12.04.2009.]
- Dismantled (in 8 weeks)
when the mine abandoned in 1933 (mine not
worked since 1921), and transfered to Cleveland Works.3
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1.
'Guisborough District Mines',
Simon Chapman, 2001, p.84 [but drawing of loading station on p.86 dated
1916 !]
2. 'Guisborough District Mines', Simon Chapman,
2001, p.84
3. 'Guisborough District Mines', Simon Chapman,
2001, p.89
4. 'Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines',
Peter Tuffs,
1996, p.6
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Location
Map-
Ordnance
Survey
1:2,500 (25")(nts) - Yorkshire, Sheet XVI - 1928
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Photographs
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Remains
of uppermost pylon
Looking north
east along the line of the ropeway
back towards the loading station.
[12th April 2009] |
Remains
of uppermost pylon
Looking south west towards
Highcliff
Nab.
[12th April 2009] |
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