Askrigg Bank

This layout represents the fictitious Lancaster and Durham Railway running south-west to north-east. Heading out from the former Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway's Penny Street Station in Lancaster, the railway headed up the Lune valley through Ingleton and began climbing up Chapel Le Dale and across Batty Moss, where the Midland built a long viaduct crossing the line 24 years later.

Several of the structures on the layout were constructed before the history was written, one of these was the viaduct, it has the date 1854 inscribed on it so that became the date of construction.

Askrigg Bank has been widely exhibited around the country and in Europe and makes a stunning crowd pleaser.

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The line passed through two small tunnels then climbed Askrigg Bank and through Askrigg Road station, this is the section modelled. The line emerges in to Swaledale from Askrigg Common Tunnel and continues northward past Reeth station to a connection with the North Eastern Railway at Richmond. In 1865 a branch was extended northwards up Arkengarthdale to a junction with the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway near Bowes this gave through running via Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland on to the East Coast Main line.