Colsterdale Light Railway

Colsterdale Light Railway
A train on the CLR
Overview
Status	Closed
Locale	Masham, North Yorkshire, England
Termini	Masham railway station
History
Commenced	1903 (1903)
Completed	1905 (1905)
Technical
Line length	6 mi (9.7 km)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	2 ft (610 mm)

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Legend
Light railway track (closed) NER/LNER/BR track (closed) Roundhill Reservoir Harrogate Aqueduct branch Spruce Gill Beck Breary Banks Camp Leighton Reservoir Spruce Gill Conduit Passing loop Leighton Road Pott Beck Breary Banks Road Leighton Yard Original railway from here River Burn Passing loop Passing loop Rigg Bank Micklebury Lane Passing loop Fearby Road A6108 road Passing loop River Ure Burton-on-Ure Road River Ure Transhipment yard Masham branch Masham To Tanfield A6108 road

The Colsterdale Light Railway (CLR) was a narrow-gauge railway line in Colsterdale, North Yorkshire, England. It was built between 1903 and 1905 to allow materials to be taken up the Colsterdale valley for reservoir building. The building of two reservoirs (Roundhill, and later Leighton) in the valley of the River Burn, was first approved for the councils of Harrogate and Leeds respectively in 1901. Construction on the second reservoir was halted during the First World War, although the railway was kept in use carrying men and supplies to the training camp, later a PoW camp, at Breary Banks.