page_title: Blake Dean Railway
section_title: Rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Blake Dean Railway / Rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: English: Steam locomotive being dragged up Heptonstall Road to the Blake Dean Railway at Dawson City
context_page_description: The Blake Dean Railway was an approximately 5.5 miles long narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 3 feet in the Hardcastle Crags Valley in West Yorkshire. It went from Heptonstall to the dam construction sites of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs.
context_section_description: There were fifteen steam locomotives in use, amongst them 'Esau' and 'Baldersdale'. The family owned haulage company Hopwood dragged all but one locomotives by horse teams from Hebden Bridge up to Heptonstall over the steep road, which winds itself over 300 ft (91 m) height difference via two hairpins. The transport was normally conducted on Saturday afternoons, when as many as sixteen horses were available.
  A fatal accident occurred on 5 September 1905, when the engine driver John Leech and the fireman James Taylor derailed with their steam engine 'Baldersdale' underneath the portal crane of the middle dam. When the locomotive tipped onto its side the driver pushed out the fireman into safety but slipped himself, so that he was scalded by the steam emerging from the boiler. He died a few days later from his injuries.
  The navvies used surplus tram cars from the horse-drawn tram in Liverpool for getting to and from the construction sites. They had still their blue and green livery and showed indicated the destinations "Lime Street" and "Fazakerley".
caption: Eleven in hand 	harnessed horse team transporting a locomotive from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall
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