The Steeple Grange Light Railway is a narrow-gauge, heritage railway visitor attraction near Wirksworth in Derbyshire, UK. It uses industrial locomotives and rolling stock from disused mines, quarries, and steelworks around the country.
The Steeple Grange Light Railway is a 0.62-mile , 18 in gauge narrow gauge line, built in 1985 on the former Killer's Branch line from Steeple House Junction of the Cromford and High Peak Railway to Middleton Quarry in Derbyshire. The line features a steep 1:27 gradient incline from the back of the engine shed to the station near Middleton by Wirksworth which has a pathway leading to Main Street. At Dark Lane there is a carriage and wagon shed which houses the railway's coaching stock alongside a few locomotives that are under maintenance and various maintenance wagons.
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Address: Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom
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