Underneath the Arches - North Cave #1 Traditional Cache
Underneath the Arches - North Cave #1
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A small plastic box which will hopefully become one of many caches round North Cave. Along a public footpath deep in North Cave
Low Mill Lane is for Access only. Please park sensibly
The Cache site can be approached from 2 directions. From Low Mill Lane or Sand Lane/Mires Lane. You can drive close to this site but from Low Mill Lane the Lane is for access only. Parking off the main road is , easy please park sensibly.
Cache is placed close to a disused railway bridge on the old Hull to Barnsley Railway.
The Hull Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company was formed with the backing of Hull Corporation to break the monopoly on dock and rail traffic from Hull; it included a deep water dock (Alexandra Dock) to the east of Hull. The railway never reached Barnsley itself, terminating at Cudworth (junction with the Midland Railway) some four miles short having been vigorously opposed by the NER.
It was one of the last new main lines to be built, construction cost double the estimates, due in part to difficulties in cutting and tunnelling through unexpectedly hard chalk in the Yorkshire Wolds near Little Weighton.
Although it was constructed primarily for goods traffic to and from the new dock and the South Yorkshire coalfields, fine villa-style passenger stations were provided but though passenger traffic was sparse.
In 1905 the company name was shortened to the Hull and Barnsley Railway which was absorbed into the NER on 1.1.1923
The line was gradually run down from the early 1930's with all passenger services ceasing in 1955.
Today only the high level goods line around Hull and a short sections serving Drax power station remain in use
Additional Hints
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