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Established Member
aka the Middleton Incline
Yes. 1 in 8!!!! But rope worked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromford_and_High_Peak_Railway
Wikipedia said:Across the plateau, since the line had been built on the canal principle of following contours, there were many tight curves, which in later years were to hamper operations. Not only did the C&HPR have the steepest adhesion worked incline of any line in the country, the 1 in 14 of Hopton, it also had the sharpest curve, 55 yards (50 m) radius through eighty degrees at Gotham.