Post by eric on Mar 4, 2010 21:26:34 GMT
I spent a few hours in the library today while my car was getting serviced, and browsed through a few copies of the 1882 Keighley News, and at that time there was some debate as to whether or not to build a direct railway line to Colne and Burnley. A gentleman wrote in and mentioned that they had ignored the obvious route of the line and suggested it should run from the Lees Moor tunnel where a short embankment and tunnel would carry it to the north side of the valley, then by Dockroyd, Providence, Oldfield, Scartop and onto Watrersheddles where a short tunnel (if a tunnel were needed) would carry the line into Wyecollar, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden, Colne and thence to Burnley! (methinks this gentleman was NOT a engineer!) Mind you, he was right when he said it would benefit the mills at Vale, Providence, Mytholmes, Springhead, Hollins, Lumbfoot, Griffe and Ponden!