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The Eaton Hall Railway was an early gauge minimum gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire. It was built for the Duke of Westminster by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, who had pioneered the gauge with his Duffield Bank Railway, and connected the hall to the GWR station sidings at on their Shrewsbury to Chester Line, some away. ==Laying the line== The total length of the line was four and a half miles (7.2 km), with the addition of several branches including one long one to the brick store and estate workshop at Cuckoo's Nest. The track was steel flat-bottomed rail of , attached by spring clips to cast iron sleepers, long and wide, spaced at centres. Pointwork was prepared at the workshop in Duffield (for which Heywood charged £7/15s/0d () each), and carried to site. The maximum gradient was 1 in 70 (1.43%), Eaton Hall being above the sidings at Balderton. For much of its length it followed the main driveway and crossed the park, including the major driveways. Therefore the line had to be as unobtrusive as possible and was laid level with the ground with a central drainage pipe beneath. The ballast was red furnace cinder, deep and wide. On leaving the park the line was embanked. The line was not fenced - where it crossed between fields it was carried on girders over a deep ditch to prevent cattle straying. There were bridges over one or two streams, the longest being , but it crossed roadways on the level, at one point the main Wrexham to Chester road. Although Heywood had obtained wayleave, it could only be a temporary arrangement, since, for a private railway, the council was not able to enter in an agreement which bound its successors. Heywood therefore campaigned for a clause in the proposed Light Railway Bill which would allow permission for public road crossings to be granted in perpetuity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eaton Hall Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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