In 1905, a passenger train was derailed at Murthwaite due to a combination of a defective locomotive and defective track. The Summer 1898 Furness Railway timetable shows five weekday trains along the line with three on Sundays. In later years, the railway did become popular with summer tourists, but this was not enough to offset the railway's running costs.
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Unfortunately, all but one of the iron ore mines closed within 10 years of the railway opening, and there was not enough traffic from other sources (local goods and passengers from the villages and farms of the valley) for the railway to sustain itself.
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The company was forced to declare itself bankrupt in 1877, although trains continued to run under the control of a series of receivers. However, the cost of upgrading the line for passengers left the railway company with substantial debts which it was unable to pay off. It was the first public narrow-gauge railway in England. įollowing requests from the residents of the valley for a passenger service, the railway was upgraded to meet the minimum standards of the Board of Trade, and the first passenger trains ran in November 1876. The confusion probably stems from the fact that the line was built under the condition that it was "of a gauge not less than 2' 9" ". This figure was believed for many years until the present company discovered a sleeper from before the line closed, with spacings between holes made by track spikes confirming the gauge was the wider one. It is shown as 3 feet in records but is quoted as 2 ft 9 in ( 838 mm) in some books such as the ABC of Narrow Gauge Railways.
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There has previously been a dispute about the gauge the railway was built to.
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In the early 1880s, a tramway was built between Beckfoot and another mine at Gill Force. The original Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway was a 3 ft ( 914 mm) line opened on to transport hematite iron ore from 3 mines near and around the village of Boot to the Furness Railway standard gauge line at Ravenglass.