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This cache has been archived.

Dalesman: This cache has been in need of care and maintenance for some time and as the owner has not responded to my note I am archiving it.

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Many thanks,
DalesmanX - (Email address)

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Hidden : 12/27/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway (E&BASR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, (formed in 1968 and re-opened in 1979).

Embsay is an old agricultural village which developed rapidly with the industrial revolution into a hive of industry featuring seven spinning mills and weaving sheds powered by waterwheels from the streams running down the fells behind the village.
 
It is part of the former Midland Railway route from Skipton to Ilkley (which was closed down by British Railways in 1965 14 years earlier).   The E&BASR currently runs for a total distance of 4 miles (6 km) from Embsay via Draughton Sidings, Holywell and Stoneacre Loop to Bolton Abbey station.

A branch line diverged from the Skipton to Ilkley railway, at Embsay Junction, striking out into the Dales and terminating in the village of Grassington or, rather, Threshfield for Grassington. This branch was originally promoted by the Yorkshire Dales Railway Company, opening for traffic in July 1902, and served several small villages together with Spencer’s quarry and limeworks at Swinden, near Cracoe.  
 
The quarrying industry was closely linked with Embsay, and still is to this day, developing in the 18th Century at Haw Park and Haw Bank to the south of the village at the time of the arrival in Skipton of the Leeds - Liverpool canal in 1774.   The limestone quarried is known as Chatburn limestone, formerly used for burning to create lime. 

Between Ilkley and Skipton the line comprised 3 viaducts, 1 tunnel, 19 public road or canal bridges, 45 occupation bridges and numerous culverts together with some 1,500,000 cubic yards of cutting. 
 
The railway has a long-term objective to extend the line in both directions south to the West Yorkshire village of Addingham and north towards the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton (where the E&BSR could one day interchange with services on the Airedale Line)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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