StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Cawfields Quarry

Cawfields Quarry loco at Town Foot, about where Potts Plant Hire is now [date of image - not known] The CQR was laid in 1905, and had several steam and IC locomotives. . The loco was built in 1902 by Kerr Stuart for work on the construction of the dam at Lake Vyrnwy in Wales, and is named after the reservoir. ["Sidar" class, 0-4-0 T, works no 748 of 1902] {only problem with that date is Lake Vyrnwy was built in the 1880s} Apparently the local name for her was "The Varney" ... suspected scrapped in the 1930s after developing problems with her firebox. There is a very similar loco "Diana" at Threkeld Mining Museum in the Lake District. Not my Image : fair use & public information

Frozen lake in Cawfields Quarry. (Haltwhistle is just over 2 1/4 miles to the south). Hadrian's Wall was here, until this section was destroyed by quarrying away the ridge - the hard dolerite [whinstone] intrusion outcrops known locally as the Great Whin Sill. Much of the eastern half Hadrian's Wall was built on top of the sill. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whin_Sill