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Description and History of Site:-
Incline about 1000 ft long transporting silica from Stony Marl Moor - Narrow gauge During the Great War a silica quarry was opened on the moor to the south-southwest of the Ravenscar. It supplied ganister to Pickford Holland in Sheffield for the making of refractories there. To transport the ganister a 1½ mile long narrow gauge tramway connected the quarry with the brickwork's siding. The last part of the line was an incline across the brickwork's shale quarry. The narrow gauge tramroad to the silica quarry closed in the 1930s. The silica quarry continued until 1965.
Further Reading and References:-Scarborough & District Archaeological Society - Industrial Archaeology - Area 1 1974
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Key Words :- railway incline
Address :- Ravenscar, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO13 0ES
Grid Ref :- NZ 97182 01609
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.400679 , Long -0.504511
Local Authority :- Scarborough Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - North Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Tracable on moorland
Site Dates :- c1916 - c1936
Record Date :- 3 August 2016
Copyright :- cc-by-nc-sa 4.0 © IHS Database
Grid Ref :- NZ 97182 01609
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.400679 , Long -0.504511
Local Authority :- Scarborough Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - North Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Tracable on moorland
Site Dates :- c1916 - c1936
Record Date :- 3 August 2016
Copyright :- cc-by-nc-sa 4.0 © IHS Database