North Eastern Railway Research Articles

NOTE ON A NEW SECTION IN THE GLACIAL DRIFTS OF HOLDERNESS

On account of the important part which the Holderness drifts have played in connection with the theories of the glaciation of the country generally, it is proposed to place on record particulars of what is perhaps the finest artificial section in the English glacial series extant. The section has been made in a rounded hill, which is situated between the well-known Kelsey Hill and Burstwick gravel pits, and lies between the 25 ft. and 50 ft. contour lines. (Fig. 1.) In 1902 the North Eastern Railway Company commenced excavations by making a cutting across the eastern flank of the hill. Since then this cutting has been extended and deepened, and details of the beds as exposed from time to time have been carefully sketched, and in this way particulars of the structure of the entire hill have been secured. Fig. 1 illustrates the easternmost section seen, and is entirely in boulder clay. Fig. 2 represents the same face when cut back 50 yards, and shows round tongue-like masses of the shelly gravel appearing at the base of the cutting from beneath the boulder clay. Fig. 3 represents the section parallel to the former, but still further west, and shows the shelly sand and gravel taking the place of the boulder clay almost throughout the section. Four of these sketches are given on Plate XXI., and illustrate parallel sections right across the eastern flank of the hill from north to south, and about 50 yards apart. The present section (Fig. 4, ...

House of Lords. Abrath v. Northeastern Railway Company

House of Lords. Abrath v. Northeastern Railway Company

Vice Chancellor's Court. Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England v. North Eastern Railway Company

Vice Chancellor's Court. Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England v. North Eastern Railway Company

XXVI. On the Geology of the North-Eastern District of Yorkshire

During my visit to this locality, the time at my disposal did not allow me to make anything like a systematic or exhaustive study of its geology. But seeing that its geological features differ so widely from those of our own district, while its iron products give it a peculiar interest, a few notes upon it may not be unacceptable to the members of this Society. The district which I propose to include in this description is that lying between the Tees and Eskdale. The map of the Geological Survey not being yet published, I have prepared one on which the leading geological features of the district are shown. Perhaps the first thing which strikes a visitor from the Scotch iron districts is the absence, in Cleveland, of igneous rocks, with their consequent upheavals and disturbance of strata. On the north of the Eston Hills, and along the track of the North-Eastern Railway from Darlington to York, the country is generally very flat; but to the east of this line, between Eston and Whitby, it is in many parts exceedingly picturesque. The surface is undulating, but it seldom exceeds a height of from 600 to 800 feet above the sea. “Roseberry Topping,” about 3 miles south-west from Guisborough, which forms the most prominent point in the district, is 1022 feet, and “Eston Nab” is 784 feet above the sea. The coast from Middlesborough to Redcar is very flat for a breadth of one to two miles inland. South of Redcar This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract

Description of the Break Drums and the Mode of Working at the Ingleby Incline on the Rosedale Branch of the North Eastern Railway

Description of the Break Drums and the Mode of Working at the Ingleby Incline on the Rosedale Branch of the North Eastern Railway

Description of the Hydraulic Swing Bridge for the North Eastern Railway over the River Ouse Near Goole

Description of the Hydraulic Swing Bridge for the North Eastern Railway over the River Ouse Near Goole

Note on the Geology of Harrogate

D uring more than forty years the uncommon arrangement of the strata about Harrogate has attracted my attention, and I have made frequent examinations of the surrounding country to learn the peculiarities of structure of the Upper Palæozoic rocks which are there exposed. Of late years the information furnished by many quarries has been increased by the cuttings on the North-Eastern Railway, and thus not only the ranges of Millstone-grit, calcareous roadstone, and Yoredale shales have been settled, but some light has been thrown on the relation of the Permian grits to those of the older series, which was formerly doubtful. The mineral springs are also much more surely referable to a deep source along an axis of movement than was possible when, now almost thirty years since, I published my map of the north-western tract of Yorkshire*. Founded on a mass of particular notices, I propose now to offer to the Society a few results relating to this district, such as it may be well to consider before the closer scrutiny of the Geological Survey shall have completely mapped out and measured the whole of the large region of elevated Mountain-limestone, Millstone-grit, and Coal-measures of the North and West Ridings. On the map of this part of Yorkshire, and further to the west, the whole country south of the Craven fault, for a length (E. to W.) of fifty miles and a breadth of twenty, is marked by many nearly parallel anticlinals, by which the Great Scar limestone and the