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The Micklehurst Loop – Part 4 – Chew Valley Road to Diggle Station The Micklehurst Loop – Part 4 – Chew Valley Road to Diggle Station. During January 2021, my wife and I walked the majority of the length of the Micklehurst Loop from Stalybridge to Diggle. This was the goods relieving line for the main Stalybridge to Huddersfield railway line. It had been hoped to alleviate congestion by making the mainline into a 4-track railway but the geography mitigated against this and a route on the other side of the Tame Valley was chosen instead. The maps used in this sequence of articles are predominantly 25" OS Maps from 1896 through to 1922 and have been sourced from the National Library of Scotland. [1] There are a number of websites which focus on the Loop which are excellent. The sites concerned are noted immediately below and the relevant link can be found in the references section of this page or by clicking on the highlighted text here: 1. The most detailed treatment of the line and its stations can be found on the Disused Stations - Site Records website. The particular pages on that site which cover the Loop were provided by Alan Young. One page covers the route and pages covering each of the stations can be accessed from that page. [7] 2. Particularly good for old photographs of the Loop is the Table 38 webpage about the railway. [9] All four articles about the Micklehurst Loop can be found on-line at: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/01/31/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1 http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/21/the-micklehurst-loop-part-2 https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/22/the-micklehurst-loop-part-3 https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/04/16/the-micklehurst-loop-part-4 There is a series of addenda to these articles which include additional material found or shared with me after the drafting of the relevant article. These can be found on the following links: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/05/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1a http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/15/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1b http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/18/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1c-including-hartshead- power-station https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/03/07/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1d-some-miscellaneous- items-relating-to-the-area-around-the-staley-and-millbrook-goods-yard https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/03/09/the-micklehurst-loop-part-3a In my perambulations around the internet, I have also encountered a series of videos (on YouTube) which start from the Northern end of the line. 5 videos cover the length of the line in 2020 and a separate video covers some of the structures on the line. These videos are easily available on YouTube. This is the first [3] in the series: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doLBsI6J_V8 Part 4 - Chew Valley Road, Greenfield to Diggle We continue our journey travelling North from Chew Valley Road. The first few images appear at the end of the last article about the line which finished at Chew Valley Road. Survey minor control revision point with an arrow on Chew Valley Road in Greenfield. The photograph looks Southeast along the Northern pavement of the road with the arch-bridge which carried the Micklehurst Loop visible in the background, (c) Manchester Libraries. [2] The corner of Greenfield Conservative Club, converted to housing in 2019. The bridge visible carries the Micklehurst Loop line over Chew Valley Road. This view is also looking to the South east but on the opposite side of Chew Valley Road, (c) Manchester Libraries. [3] We finished the last length of the Micklehurst Loop at Chew Valley Road in Greenfield. In concluding, we saw a couple of older postcard images of Greenfield Viaduct, the second of which looks along Chew Valley Road towards the Southeast, and a 21st century Google Streetview image of the point at which the Loop crossed Chew Valley Road. Greenfield Viaduct. [4] Old Postcard Image looking past Wellington Mills and along Chew Valley Road to the Southeast. Greenfield Viaduct appears on the right side of the image, there is then a short section of embankment before the arched bridge over Chew Valley Road. Bentfield Mill sits behind the Viaduct. The line was on embankment to the Northeast of Chew Valley Road, to the left of this image. [5] Chew Valley Road at the point where the Micklehurst Loop crossed the road by means of an arched bridge. The trees sit where the bridge abutments once sat! (Google Streetview.) We get ready to set off on this last length of the Loop by looking at a few images of Chew Valley Road Bridge which I found on the "Greenfieldgoneby" Facebook group. [15] ............. The adjacent image looks from the Southeast along Chew Valley Road. [16] This second image is taken from the same direction and a little closer to the bridge. The first was a winter-time shot, the second was taken in the summer. [17] The third is taken from the Northwest and shows the Conservative Club on the right side. [18] The final image of the bridge before we begin our journey, is shown below. It is also taken from the Northwest, but from much closer to the bridge. [19] An extract from the 25" OS Maps from the early 20th Century. Chew Valley Road appears in the bottom left of the extract. [1] Satellite image of approximately the same area in the 21st century (Google Maps). Wellington Mills - the postcard showing the mill which appears above and the extract from the OS Mapping show Wellington Mills to the West of the railway in Greenfield. The mills were built in 1852 for Shaw, Son and Lees cotton Spinners who traded until 1858 and were succeeded by N. Broadbent and Sons. When Broadbent ceased trading the mills were left unused for 6 years (from 1932 to 1938). 1938 saw part of the buildings used as a general engineering works and in 1941 the rest of the premises were opened up with the installation of 362 looms by the fabric weaver B. Kershaw. [6] In the years up to 1946 the engineering section of the mill produced engine parts for bombers. It was then used for storage, first by the Navy and then by the British Wool Board. In 1946 the buildings and land were purchased by William Oddy. He transferred his woolen Looking Northeast from Chew Valley Road in the 21st carding and mule spinning operations century along what would have been form Shipley to Greenfield. The the line of the Micklehurst Loop Knoll Spinning Company was formed (My Photograph - 25th January 2021) at this time. It seems that 362 looms were installed at this time. The company ceased trading in the 1990s and the mill again became vacant. [8] Huddersfield Narrow Canal - along this stretch of the Loop the Canal is conspicuous by its absence. Having followed the Eastern valley side and hence having been very close to the Loop at times on the way up from Stalybridge, the Canal crossed both the Tame valley and the River Tame in the Friezland area. Through Greenfield and Uppermill it followed the line of the older mainline railway on the West side of the valley. The River Tame can just be made out in the Northwest corner of the map extract above running on the Southeast side of Frenches Dye Works. The Canal was on the northwest side of the Works. The railway embankment between Chew Valley Road and Higher Arthurs has been regraded to match surrounding land. (My photograph - 25th January 2021) Frenches Dye Works - Owen Ashmore, in The Industrial Archaeology of Northwest England, notes the existence of this Dye Works but as having been closed at the time of his survey - "At Frenches ... is [the] site of [a] former Dye Works built on [the] site of [an] early 18C fulling mill." [10: p130] Our walk along the line of the Micklehurst Loop took us across Chew Valley Road and Higher Arthurs on 25th January 2021. Just to the north of Higher Arthurs, we had to choose between scrambling up the embankment face seen just beyond the dwarf wall which is all that is left of the abutment of the bridge which carried the Loop over the lane, or a short walk along Carr Lane to access the track-bed along the approved walking route. We chose the latter and joined the route of the old line a few tens of metres ahead of the steep track shown in The approach to Higher Arthurs in the 21st century - the the picture. original bridge has been removed. The railway embankment can be see rising ahead (My Photograph - January 2021). The slightly blurred image at the bottom of the last slightly blurred image from the Saddleworthgoneby Facebook Group shows the bridge which carried the Loop over High Arthurs. A double-headed mineral train is travelling North on the Loop. The road in the foreground is Carr Lane. The photographer is not known. [60] The old railway continued Northeast from Higher Arthurs curving gradually round towards a Northerly direction. At the time the map below was drawn, there was a footbridge carrying a footpath from Wellington Terrace across to Kinders Lane and Fur Lane Farm. This footbridge was a narrow blue-brick arched bridge. It remains in place in the 21st century. These next two pictures show it from track-bed level. The footbridge is a two span blue-brick arch bridge. This picture is taken looking North toward Uppermill Station, (My photograph - 25th January 2021). The footbridge again, this time looking South towards Greenfield (Photograph taken by Jo Farnworth - 25th January 2021).
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