This large whinstone quarry was started in 1912 and ceased operation in 1955. In 1935 a narrow gauge railway line using four wheeled diesel locomotives transported stone from the quarry face to a nearby crushing plant http://www.avrs.co.uk/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/the-link/39all.pdf
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