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| Name: | Admiralty Incline, Portland |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| HER Number: | MDO19572 |
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| Last edited: | Aug 31 2007 2:16AM |
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Summary
Built in 1840s to carry quarried stone for breakwater construction; 7ft broad gauge. Incline with Higher, Middle and Lower Drums. Disused (‘old railway’) in 1889 but later refurbished as standard gauge for new works.
Sources and Further Reading
| <1> | SDO10248 - Monograph: Jackson, B L. 1999. Isle of Portland Railways, vol. 1. The Admiralty and Quarry Railways. 63-124. |
| <2> | SDO10239 - Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500. |
| <3> | SDO10297 - Map: 1889. Ordnance Survey 10.56-feet sheet LVIII.7.25 (part). |
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