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Drs 37423 and d975025 caroline on the swinden quarry branch rarely seen
Swinden Quarry is a quarry located on the Skipton to Grassington Line near the village of Cracoe in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by LaFarge Tarmac. The railway line still serves this location. It is known in railway terminology as Rylstone Quarry.
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- Drs 37423 and d975025 caroline on the swinden quarry branch rarely seen
- Swinden quarry view
- Railfreight servicesEdit
- References
Swinden Quarry railway station is a railway yard for use at Swinden Quarry near the village of Cracoe. The yard is at the northern end of the old Skipton to Grassington Line built by the Yorkshire Dales Railway. It is now the terminus of the line as the portion north of here to the former terminus at Threshfield was closed in 1969 and subsequently lifted (the B6265 road now passes across the old formation just beyond the buffer stops).
Products exported from the site include roadstone, agricultural lime, industrial carbonate, crushed rock aggregate & pre-cast concrete products.
Swinden quarry view
Railfreight servicesEdit
Limestone services from here are operated to Dewsbury, Dairycoates (Hull) and Marsh Lane/Hunslet (Leeds) by DB Schenker. DB Schenker also used to operate an industrial lime service to Redcar for SSI on Teesside. GB Railfreight operate train services of limestone to Small Heath & Wellingborough.
