page_title: Little Salkeld railway station
section_title: Long Meg mine
hierarchical_section_title: Little Salkeld railway station / History / Long Meg mine
caption_attribution_description: English: Long Meg Mine, Little Salkeld A disused Long Meg Gypsum and Anhydrite Mine. Here is a large concrete platform that looks to have been constructed in the mid-20C.
context_page_description: Little Salkeld was a railway station which
  served the village of Little Salkeld and Great Salkeld in Hunsonby Parish, Cumbria, England. The Settle-Carlisle Line remains operational for freight and passenger traffic. The station was built by the Midland Railway and opened in 1876. It closed in 1970, when the local stopping service over the line was withdrawn by British Rail.
context_section_description: in 1885 Long Meg Drift mine was opened by the Long Meg Plaster Company Limited, and the drift mine was connected to the Midland Railway in 1886.
  The Carlisle Plaster and Cement Company Limited closed the mine in 1914-5, but in 1922 the mine was reopened for the extraction of anhydrite by the Long Meg Plaster and Mineral Company Limited. The mine was purchased in 1939 by the British Plaster Board Limited, renamed British Gypsum, who closed the mine in January 1976.
caption: Ruins at Long Meg Mine site.
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