Gotham Curve

v t e Cromford and High Peak Railway
Legend
Peak Forest Canal Whaley Bridge Canal Wharf Whaley Bridge Incline Buxton line to Manchester Whaley Bridge Buxton line to Buxton and Hindlow Shallcross Shallcross Incline Fernilee Fernilee Reservoir Bunsall Lower Incline Bunsall Upper Incline Burbage Tunnel Ladmanlow Old Harpur Harpur Hill Ashbourne line to Buxton and Whaley Bridge Hindlow Hindlow Tunnel Hindlow Quarry (Brigg's Sidings) Dowlow Halt Dowlow Works Hurdlow Parsley Hay Ashbourne line Newhaven Tunnel Friden Goods Yard Gotham Curve Minninglow Goods Yard Longcliffe Goods Yard Hopton Incline Hopton Tunnel Middleton Top Middleton Incline Middleton Quarry Recreation Ground unopened connection Ravenstor Ecclesbourne Valley Railway National Stone Centre Steeple Grange Light Railway Steeple House Steeplehouse & Wirksworth Sheep Pasture Incline Cromford Incline Sheep Pasture Bottom (now High Peak Junction) Cromford Canal to Cromford Wharf Cromford Goods Wharf Cromford Canal to Whatstandwell Derwent Valley line to Cromford original High Peak Junction Derwent Valley line to Whatstandwell
Hurdlow Incline deviation (1869)
Dowlow Works Hurdlow Incline bypassed Hurdlow

The Gotham Curve was once the sharpest curve on any standard gauge railway line in the UK.^[1][2][3][4] The curve, which was situated in the sparsely populated, exposed limestone uplands in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, was on the Cromford and High Peak Railway.^[5] The single-track main line was inherited by British Railways in 1948. It closed in 1967.