Tunstead Quarry

Tunstead Quarry

Above: The orange circle shows where the photo was taken – approching Tunstead from the footbridge over the quarry’s railway line. Tunstead Quarry lies just a few miles east of Buxton and is the UK’s largest limestone quarry, covering some 840 acres....
Reinstating the railway

Reinstating the railway

Above: A group of young cyclists coming through Great Longstone Station heading towards the Buxton end of the Trail. It was Dr Beeching’s 1963 report on the decline of Britain’s railways that sounded the death knell for many of the country’s less...