The road entrance to Swinden Quarry near to Rylstone in North Yorkshire. The rail fed sidings are on the left with the quarry face poking up on the top right.
Swinden Quarry is 0.62 miles (1 km) north of the village of Cracoe, and 1.9 miles (3 km) south-west of Grassington in North Yorkshire, England.[1] It is owned by LaFarge Tarmac. The former Skipton-Grassington railway line still serves this location, and in railway terminology, the site is known as Rylstone Quarry.[2]
Swinden Quarry railway yard is near the village of Cracoe, at the northern end of the old Skipton to Grassington line built by the Yorkshire Dales Railway. It is now the terminus of the line as the portion north of there to the former terminus at Threshfield was closed in 1969 and subsequently lifted (the B6265 road now passes across the old formation just beyond the buffer stops).
^"OL2" (Map). Yorkshire Dales – Southern & Western Area. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319263310.
^Jacobs, Gerald (2005). Railway Track Diagrams – Midlands & North West. Quail Trackmaps. pp. 33C. ISBN 0-9549866-0-1.
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