A Chronology of the CROMFORD & HIGH PEAK RAILWAY And
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RAILWAY & CANAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY RAILWAY CHRONOLOGY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP A Chronology of the CROMFORD & HIGH PEAK RAILWAY and associated events. Compiled by P J McCarthy NOTES 1. This document is compiled from notes and a diary made from collected records in the early 1970s with later additions. 2, Sources are indicated by the references shown below, mainly individuals who have communicated information from documents they have studied or created, in many cases providing copies. Many of the individuals are no longer with us but my indebtedness to them and to the officers of the several organisations mentioned is acknowledged with gratitude and apologies for taking so long to do so. 3. Where conflicting dates have been found and remain unresolved these are shown and are subject to clarification. 4. Some events involving individuals are included primarily for the benefit of family historians. 5. The compiler would consider it a favour if readers who believe any errors have been made, have any additional information to offer or who can indicate further sources would write to him at 6 Carisbrooke Close, Wistaston, CREWE CW2 8JD. ABBREVIATIONS AC Ashton Canal. AGM Annual General Meeting Att Attach BC Bridgewater Canal and /or Company BHPJ(1)(2) Buxton & High Peak Junction Rlys Nos1 & 2. BLF Buxton Lime Firms. BoT Board of Trade. BP Birmingham Post. BR British Railways. Br Branch. BWB British Waterways Board. CC Cromford Canal and/or the Company. CCC Cheshire County Council. CHP CromfordandHighPeakRailwayand/ortheCompany. CM&EE Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer. CRO County Record Office. DC Derbyshire Countryside. DCR Derby & Chesterfield Reporter. DCC Derbyshire County Council. DES Date entered service (of railway). Det Detach. DM Directors' meeting. DM(O) Divisional Manager(’s Office). DOB Date of Birth. DoD Duke of Devonshire. ECS Empty Coaching Stock. FRS Freight Rolling Stock. Ft Freight. GCR Great Central Rly. GF Ground Frame. GJR Grand Junction Rly. GMCRO Greater Manchester County Record Office. GTC Grand Trunk Canal (Trent & Mersey). HC House of Commons. HL House of Lords. ICE Institute of Civil Engineers. ICI Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Jn Junction. L&B London & Birmingham Railway. L&M Liverpool & Manchester Railway. LC Level crossing. 1 pjm/rchs/chron.chp Cromford & High Peak Railway LDEC Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. LGRP Locomotive & General Railway Photographs LM(O) Line Manager's (Office). LMR London Midland Region (of British Railways). LMS London Midland & Scottish Railway. LNWR(G) London & North Western Railway (Gazette). MBM Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Rly. M&B Manchester & Birmingham Railway. MBMMJ Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midland Junction Railway. MC Macclesfield Canal. MOF&P Ministry of Fuel & Power. MR Midland Railway. MSL Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. NED North Eastern Division (notice). NLR North London Railway. NMR North Midland Railway. NSR North Staffordshire Railway. NWEB North Western Electricity Board. Obit Obituary Notice. OS Ordnance Survey. PFC Peak Forest Canal and/or the Company. PFT Peak Forest Tramway (or Railway). PH Public House. PS Private Siding. PSA Private Siding Agreement. PSD Private Siding Diagram. PWN Permanent Way Notice. Q As required. RC Rochdale Canal and/ or the company. RCHS Railway & Canal Historical Society. RB(E) Rowsley & Buxton (Extension) Rly. RCTS Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. RDC Rural District Council. Rd Road. RM Railway Magazine. RTM Railway & Travel Monthly. SAMR Sheffield, Ashton under Lyne & Manchester Railway. SB Signal Box. SDWB(E) Stockport Disley & Whaley Bridge (Extension) Railway Sdg Siding. SDR Stockport Junction Rly. SLS Stephenson Locomotive Society. Soc Society Sta. Station. SN Special Notice. ST Sheffield Telegraph. STHS Sheffield Trades Historical Society. T&M Trent & Mersey Canal. TC Through Carriage. TL The Locomotive Magazine UDC Urban District Council. UMIST Manchester University Institute of Science & Technology. Wgn(s) Wagon(s). WI Wrought Iron. WN Weekly notice. WTT Working timetable. 2 pjm/rchs/chron.chp Cromford & High Peak Railway REFERENCES 0 Original document or copy. 1 P Riden. 2 Anthony J Pearce. 3 BR, Line Managers papers. 4 Derby Mercury. 5 Leslie Jackson. 6 Charles Hadfield. 7 George Dow, Great Central. 8 E Raymond Morten. 9 BR,PB followed by / deed packet reference number. 10 D J Hodgkins, Journal of Transport History 5/1963. Etc. 11 Glynne Waite, 12 C R Clinker, 13 House of Lords. 14 Alan Rimmer. 15 Derbyshire County Record Office. 16 Stockport Advertiser. 17 British Transport Historical Records CHP. 18 Great Eastern Magazine per 8. 19 British Transport Historical Records PFC. 20 C R Clinker, mostly in notes to 29. 21 Brittlebank (Brooke-Taylor) papers, 15. 22 P J McCarthy. 23 Gell collection. 24 Kieth Hallows. 25 British Transport Historical Records. 26 Derby Mercury. 27 G A Cooke. 28 Peter Smedley-Stevenson. 29 G J Aston. 30 Buxton Advertiser. 31 Buxton Herald. 32 Peter Robotham. 33 M D Greville. 34 John V Gough. 35 High Peak News. 36 John Marshall. 37 John Law. 38 Gregory Fox. 39 Old railway records at Buxton. 40 High Peak News. 41 BR Buxton papers. 42 Derbyshire County Record Office. 43 BR Manchester papers. 44 T B Spires. 45 BR Rowsley papers. 46 Traffic Notice. 47 Derbyshire Advertiser. 48 Derbyshire Times. 49 Weekly Notices. 50 Sunday Mercury. 51 Derby Evening Telegraph. 52 A F Roberts. 53 Anthony Broome. 54 William Skillern. 55 Crewe Public Library. 56 Josephine F Rhodes. 57 DCC, Director of Corporate Resources, Central Registry/ Compilrer's ref No. 58 The Times 59 Draft Land Plan c1875, GMCRO Y5/144. 60 Land Plan c1970 3 pjm/rchs/chron.chp Cromford & High Peak Railway 61 CCC, CRO. 62 Deposited Plan. 63 Line Plan, SDWB Sheet 10. 64 Mather F C. "After the Iron Duke" 1970. 65 Journal of Transport History. 66 Modern Transport. 67 Railway Magazine. 68 Gordon Rattenbury. 69 Locomotive Magazine. 70 Railway Observer. 71 Railway World. 72 Nottingham Journal. 73 Lincolnshire Chronicle. 74 Joyce Winfield. 75 Chatsworth Estates. 76 Waite & Knighton, Chronology, Rowsley & Darley Dale. CHRONOLOGY Year Date Event Reference 1745 William Jessop born. 1764 Benjamin Outram born. 1765 Joseph Strutt born. 1781 Richard Arkwright born. 1784 George Henry Strutt born 17 Apr Peter Arkwright born. 1785 John Arkwright born. 1786 Charles Arkwright born. 1789 31 July Cromford Canal authorised. 1790 Butterley Company formed. 1791 John Wright, joined Ben. Outram & Co., married Elizabeth Berresford, Made a loan to William Jessop snr. 1 30 Aug Ashton Canal Bill advertised. 6 1792 Richard Arkwright died. Constantine Richard Moorsom born. Feb Cromford Canal partially opened. 6 June Ashton Canal Act. 6 1793 Mar Ashton Canal further Act. 6 8 May Peak Forest Canal abandoned idea of Chapel Milton terminal. 2 Oct Cromford canal opened throughout. 4 1794 Poynton Branch Canal proposed. 2 Peak Forest Canal leased land at Dove Holes for quarry. 5 28 Mar. Peak Forest Canal incorporated. Aug. Cromford Canal fully opened. 6 8 Aug William Brittlebank II baptised. 6,36 1796 Ashton Canal main line opened. 6 Aug. Peak Forest Canal, Bugsworth-Marple opened. 2 1797 Peak Forest Canal opened except Marple locks. 7 4 pjm/rchs/chron.chp Cromford & High Peak Railway Jan Stockport Branch canal opened. 6 Peak Forest Tramway believed first used. Peak Forest and Caldon canals link proposed. 2 1799 Bugsworth lime kilns first used. 8 May Ashton Canal opened to Piccadilly. 6 1800 Lee Wood branch canal authorised. 8 May Link between Ashton and Peak Forest canals opened. 12 1 May Whaley Bridge PFC branch, opened. 8 1 May Peak Forest Tramway opened. 7 30 May Peak Forest Canal further Act. 6,36 1801 Frances Berresford died leaving ¼ share in Outram Coy. to son John. Apr Ben. Outram withdrew from consulting engineering practice. 1802/5 Proposals (5) for canal to join Cromford and Peak Forest Canals. 8 1802 Lee Wood Branch Canal opened. 1803 . Marple locks opened. 7 Peak Forest Tramroad doubled by this year. 7 1804 William Scarth Moorsom born. 1805 18 Mar Ashton Canal further Act. 15 May Benjamin Outram died. 1 1807 23 May Indenture, Ann Mason. 9/74 13 Nov Hartington Enclosure instrument. 9/38,47 1808 Farey described Grin limeworks. 5 24/25 Mar Draft conveyance. 9/44 1810 Spring Revival of High Peak Junction Canal, survey by Brown of Disley and Johnson & Meadows of Manchester. (Rennie revised). 10 Jewitt wrote on Grin. 5 1813 2/3 Apr Indentures George Lees Jnr. Bradbourne, Parwich ?). 9/79 2 May Will of Joshua Gregory, Land at Harborough. 9/40 1814 Chancery gave John Wright ⅔rds Outrarn's ¼ share & William Jessop, Jnr. (Josiah's bro.) ⅓, in Outram & Co. Wilson called on Farey with scheme to link Cromford and Peak Forest canals by rail. 10 1815 W & J Fairbanks survey, railway/tramroad, Mam Tor- Woodlands (Cocks Bridge). 0,61 Jack Hawkyard, Ashton-u-L., survey/plan PFT. 0,61 10 May Will of Stephen Hall I, property to Stephen Hall 2. 9/44 1820 Guidebook published indicating High Peak Jn. Canal opened, "Topographical & Statistical Description of the County of Derby". 10,27 182- Draft conveyances, land for line at Brassington. Isaac Johnson, Samuel Swindell. 9/50,81 1821 George Henry Strutt died. 3 Nov Will of Gamaled Hall. 9 /43 1823 Josias Jessop commenced survey of line. 11 Decision to make line taken. 12 PFC. strongly opposed CHP and Macclesfield. Canal. 2 5 pjm/rchs/chron.chp Cromford & High Peak Railway 1824 W Jessop estimate in booklet form with deposited plans etc. 13 W Jessop, High Peak Steam Railway, Second Report. 14 PFC 'authorised' Caldon Link, Marple Top Lock to Talke on Trent & Mersey Canal. 2 June 1st. meeting of 'interested parties', committee formed. 10 5 June Meeting of 16 june called at Mrs Cummings, Old Bath, Matlock. 73 July Prospectus for Grand Commercial (or Scarsdale & High Peak) Canal, Joseph Hazelhurst. 7,10.11. 9 July Committee meeting. 10 28 July General Meeting, Bridgewater Arms, Manchester.