46232 1960c Lowmoor Cottages near Greenholme, Lower Shap Incline
Colin Ryder provides the caption 46232 Duchess of Montrose which was a Glasgow Polmadie loco until withdrawal in December 1962, is seen passing Lowmoor Cottages on an up express and entering the cutting just north of the Greenholme Bridge about 2 miles north of Tebay. [1] This pair of stone cottages, just like the pair further north up the incline at Salterwath a mile beyond Scout Green SB, were according to Harold Bowtell an early pair, and in the early 20th century were occupied by pw staff. Coal was sent in two wagons, one for each site, twice a year from the Tebay coal agent to engineering department order, and shovelled out at each location.’ Ways of running a railway have changed a lot since then!! [2] [1] TeleRail, Steam World Archive Series, vol.21. Charles Maher is a Cumbrian farmer and rail enthusiast, one of the founders of the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway. [2] H.D.Bowtell, Over Shap to Carlisle, Ian Allan, 1983, p.35.”