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  1. Mick Garratt @[email protected] ·

    Siberia on the Moors — A Lost Railway Community

    For nigh on seventy years, this exposed stretch on Greenhow Moor, with its splendid panorama of the Cleveland Plain and beyond, served as home for a community of railway workers and their families.

    Sited at the top of the Ingleby Incline, a cluster of building once stood here, in a location so remote and exposed that it earne ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=34805

    #GreenhowMoor #InglebyIncline #NorthYorkMoors #ironstone #railway

    #greenhowmoor #inglebyincline #northyorkmoors #ironstone #railway
  2. Mick Garratt @[email protected] ·

    Quiz time: what is a scud?

    If you'd have asked me a week or so ago, I would have said a Scud was a Soviet Union designed ballistic missiles used in the Iraq war.

    I have since learnt that a scud is a glider, a low-level detached, irregular cloud, and an acronym that is too crude for me to repeat here, but something to do with dynamite.

    This was all prompted by a reader ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30934

    #inglebygreenhow #InglebyIncline #InglebyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Scud #snow

    #inglebygreenhow #inglebyincline #inglebymoor #northyorkmoors #scud #snow