Hills of Britain and Ireland

OS Map of Dead Edge End

Peak 170...No 71...Dead edge end.
Peak 170...No 71...Dead edge end.

Not much of a day for photographs, but then it is August.......the best of a bad bunch.

06-Aug-20 • A tramp in the hills flickr

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Top of the Holme Pass
Top of the Holme Pass

23-Feb-19 • DarylFahy flickr

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Woodhead Airshafts Aug 1991
Woodhead Airshafts Aug 1991

Looking NE across Upper Head Dike above the Woodhead Tunnels on a fine day in early August. Behind the ventilators stetches Wike Edge, to the right of it a white vehicle negotiates Windle Edge en-route to Duford Bridge, further right still the relentless procession of cross-Pennine traffic plys Gallows Moss on the A628-It's Grim Up North. The nearest structure is the 512 feet deep Shaft No.2 in Derbyshire on the old tunnels while farther across the valley are two brick buildings in South Yorkshire. The one immediately above Shaft No.2 is (I think) a dynamite store for the new tunnel & to it's right is the square 467 foot deep ventilator for the new 1954 bore. Hidden from view-the white Ford Orion bodyshell which found employment as an access ladder is around the far side.

22-Jan-18 • Mr Bushy flickr

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29-Sep-15 • max_burton flickr

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SE10sw_DTM_2m
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM). Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" rel="nofollow www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v... For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey" rel="nofollow environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey

01-Jan-14 • Environment Agency Survey Open Data flickr

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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM). Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" rel="nofollow www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v... For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey" rel="nofollow environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey

01-Jan-14 • Environment Agency Survey Open Data flickr

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Peak 170...No 71...Dead edge end.
Peak 170...No 71...Dead edge end.

Not much of a day for photographs, but then it is August.......the best of a bad bunch.

06-Aug-20 • A tramp in the hills flickr

deadedgeend darkpeak 50213381453

Top of the Holme Pass
Top of the Holme Pass

23-Feb-19 • DarylFahy flickr

46621830625

Woodhead Airshafts Aug 1991
Woodhead Airshafts Aug 1991

Looking NE across Upper Head Dike above the Woodhead Tunnels on a fine day in early August. Behind the ventilators stetches Wike Edge, to the right of it a white vehicle negotiates Windle Edge en-route to Duford Bridge, further right still the relentless procession of cross-Pennine traffic plys Gallows Moss on the A628-It's Grim Up North. The nearest structure is the 512 feet deep Shaft No.2 in Derbyshire on the old tunnels while farther across the valley are two brick buildings in South Yorkshire. The one immediately above Shaft No.2 is (I think) a dynamite store for the new tunnel & to it's right is the square 467 foot deep ventilator for the new 1954 bore. Hidden from view-the white Ford Orion bodyshell which found employment as an access ladder is around the far side.

22-Jan-18 • Mr Bushy flickr

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29-Sep-15 • max_burton flickr

21710465678

SE10sw_DTM_2m
SE10sw_DTM_2m

Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM). Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" rel="nofollow www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v... For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey" rel="nofollow environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey

01-Jan-14 • Environment Agency Survey Open Data flickr

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SE10sw_DSM_2m
SE10sw_DSM_2m

Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM). Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" rel="nofollow www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v... For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey" rel="nofollow environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey

01-Jan-14 • Environment Agency Survey Open Data flickr

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Woodhead New Tunnel Air Shaft 28th Aug 1989
Woodhead New Tunnel Air Shaft 28th Aug 1989

Looking west from Woodhead New Tunnel air shaft with a splendid mock sun-quite common in these parts-on a quiet & balmy Monday evening. Only one centrally-placed shaft was constructed for the new tunnel on account of it being an electric railway although a second shaft consisting of a flue was dug from inside the tunnel to connect with [I think] shaft 5 of the old bores nearer to Duford Bridge. Shining a torch up this flue in the tunnel you could clearly see where it turned the corner towards the old bores around 40 feet above you. A peculiarity was when approaching it from the Woodhead direction the sound of running water sounded exactly like girls laughing. We are just inside South Yorkshire looking across Upper Head Dyke to Shaft No.2 of the old bores in Derbyshire a little over 600 yards away. Unlike it's companions on the old tunnels, the new shaft was off-set from the tunnel centre line & had a square retaining wall made of brick surmounted by large edgeing stones, Two large parallel girders which are glinting in the setting sun like railway tracks & align with the tunnel below. The girders are approximately 2 feet above a sturdy grill which consists of 9 square sections, 8 fixed & the middle one hinged with a rusty padlock & chain that may well have been installed when built. Laying face-down on the grill it took several seconds for your eyesight to become accustomed to the gloom but you were suddenly aware of a shimmering circle of light 467 feet below at the bottom of a vast 16 foot diameter concrete tube & that's when it hit you-vertigo central!! The shimmering circle of light was a concrete recess at the base which had filled with water over the years & a billiard ball was dropped into this which took around 10 seconds to fall. The following year when we next walked the tunnel the ball was retrieved none-the-worse for it's excursive expedition. The same ball was often bounced on station concourse terazzo tiling rendering a most satsfying 'snap'. The shaft, at the end of a track off Windle Edge had an abandoned & stripped car next to it & was therefore also known by us as the "Ford Orion Shaft". Practically everything had been stripped from the white painted vehicle except the hand brake & sun roof winding handle which made the bodyshell extremely light & the ideal access 'ladder' for the discerning Woodhead gricer.

28-Aug-89 • Mr Bushy flickr

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Woodhead Old Tunnel No.2 Air Shaft 19th Aug 1989
Woodhead Old Tunnel No.2 Air Shaft 19th Aug 1989

It's difficult to quantify the obsession with all things Woodhead but for myself & evidently many others it starts at an early age & becomes so ingrained that it seems to always have been there. As a kid I built a 00 Woodhead layout from official track plans sourced from BR York archives at great expense to my Dad & would spend hours pouring over pictures of the line in it's heyday. It was still open then, albeit only to freight but I had not yet seen it for real or any of the enigmatic locos that worked it. One of my school friends would regale me with how he once 'sneaked' to Penistone for a couple of hours spotting on an East Midlands Ranger Ticket & I was in awe. I would equate the Woodhead affliction with Richard Dreyfuss' character Roy Neary in "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" when he constructs a mashed potato model of the UFO landing site at Devil's Tower, completely oblivious to his family's total dismay. On Saturday 19th August 1989 we made one of many pilgrimages to Woodhead & ascended the wall atop No.2 Shaft of the old tunnels. Left to right 'presenting' the 512 foot drop to track level are: Steve Power, Telford, Me, Southy & Dale Williams. The view is roughly NE with Round Hill & Upper Head Moss in the background.

19-Aug-89 • Mr Bushy flickr

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