page_title: Buxton lime industry
section_title: Buxton Lime Firms
hierarchical_section_title: Buxton lime industry / History / Buxton Lime Firms
caption_attribution_description: English: Limestone train from Tunstead to ICI Winnington, 1964. View SE from the Hodge Lane bridge over the loop from the CLC at Northwich to the Hartford Exchange Sidings on the West Coast Main Line, from which the train will be worked to the ICI Works. In those days about 10 of these limestone trains ran every weekday and even about 6 on Sundays - and there are workings even today. The locomotive here is Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48693 (built 1944 on the SR, withdrawn 4/67).
context_page_description: The Buxton lime industry has been important for the development of the town of Buxton in Derbyshire, England, and it has shaped the landscape around the town.
context_section_description: The arrival of the main railway lines from Manchester and London to Buxton in the 1860s prompted the opening of many further quarries: Victory in 1863, Ashwood Dale in 1864, Great Rocks in 1869, Peak Dale in 1877, Oldham Lime in 1878, East Buxton in 1880, Hindlow in 1882 and Buxton Central in 1885.
  Buxton Lime Firms (BLF) was formed by 13 competing quarry owners in 1891. BLF controlled the price of stone and lime from its 17 initial quarries. BLF owned over 1500 acres of land with about 100 lime kilns and 3 collieries. It produced 360,000 tons of limestone and 280,000 tons of lime per year. Larger, more advanced kilns were now in use and firebricks were introduced into kilns from 1907. By 1915 BLF had developed or acquired an additional 9 quarries including the opening of: Small Dale in 1891, Dowlow in 1898, Buxton South in 1900, Topley Pike in 1907, Brier Low in 1907, Cowdale in 1908. BLF supplied increasing quantities of lime to Brunner Mond until Brunner Mond acquired BLF in 1919, when Bee Low quarry was also opened.
caption: Limestone train from Tunstead to ICI Winnington, 1964
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