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A stretch of old railway line in a Derbyshire village is to be converted into a route for cyclists, horseriders, walkers, runners, and mobility scooters[1].
The plans will see the 3.5-mile Little Eaton Branch Line between Duffield Road in Little Eaton …
Cemex is seeking permission to build a new railhead and improve train access to Dove Holes quarry, which spans 213 hectares along Dale Road[1] and sits at the end of the same freight spur out of Buxton[2] serving Tarmac’s Tunstead site[3].
Limestone h…
Above: Celebrating HS2’s 10 million tonnes of aggregate by rail milestone at Tarmac, Buxton-2
Major milestone, way ahead of target, in HS2’s plan to cut carbon emissions by removing lorries from roads.
Businesses came together to celebrate at Tarmac’s…
Once a noisy, smelly and dangerous environment, today Ironbridge Gorge offers fascinating strolls through the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
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Explore the world’s first iron bridge (1781) and Bedlam Furnaces, where the iron for th…
A much-loved lecturer is among 64 people whose death notices have appeared in the Leicester Mercury in the past week. Derrick Hewitt received Maundy money from the Queen at Leicester Cathedral in 2017.
As well as working an engineering lecturer at Loug…