This view through a road bridge under the C&HPR shows the lovely countryside round here.
I mentioned embankments yesterday: here are two striking examples at Minninglow.
It's almost as if someone has only just come along and filled the depression in the ground with stones. Perhaps canal embankments looked like this until the trees grew up alongside to strengthen the banks. Railways, of course, weren't concerned with water retention, and trees presumably found it hard to grow in dry stone.
One byproduct of having walls, fences or hedges along the railway line - to keep livestock out - is that it's a haven of wild flowers, ungrazed by cattle or sheep.
This is a five-spot Burnet moth, as were were informed by another couple walking the route.
2 comments:
Lovely photos, Halfie. I like that stone embankment! Very pleasing to the eye. The countryside looks very pretty around there too. What a special moth! They are usually such boring colours, it's a surprise to see one so 'well designed'.
Wonderful pictures of a truly impressive structure & one of my favourite spots on the route.
As you may well know the original proposal for what became the C&HP was to build a canal, but as there were no water sources for the summit they went with one of those new-fangled railways instead.
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