Cementation Plant

Construction Site

Crusher No 1

Discharge Tunnel

Discharge Tunnel Bottom Heading

Discharge Tunnel Breakup

Site of Embankment

Comment by Buggyite

No. 2 was one of the 2' gauge locos. It was a Wren class engine, built by Kerr Stuart in 1918, no. 3114,Prior to being used at Fernilee, it was owned by Cardiff Corporation Water Dept. After Fernilee reservoir was finished, Lehane McKenzie and Shand took it to their depot in Darley Dale.This loco has survived into preservation, and is now at the Vale of Rheidol Steam Railway in Wales, but isn't on display.

Comment by Buggyite Engine No 2

This looks like the 2ft gauge line built along the Cromford & High Peak to help in laying the 12" dia high pressure water pipes along that route.

Comment by Buggyite

"Brownhill" was one of the 3' gauge locos. It was built by Hunslet of Leeds in 1903, and had works number 832.After Fernilee, Lehane's had it on Admiralty works in Orkney.It was cut up in Twigg's yard at Matlock in 1951.

by Buggyite

"Kinder" was built by Orenstein & Koppel of Berlin in 1925, and numbered 10903. Like Brownhill, prior to the Fernilee project, it was used by Lehane, McKenzie & Shand at Gorple Reservoir near Halifax.Despite the name, it was never used on the Kinder Reservoir construction.It was still at the engine shed at Fernilee in 1937, but susequently went to various Nottinghamshire collieries, eventually being scrapped in 1947 by Tommy Wards.

Engine Vyrnwy

comment by Buggyite

Another O& K loco, like Kinder. This was built in 1930, number 12242. Presumably it had worked on Birmingham Corporation's Lake Vyrnwy project in Mid-Wales. Later it worked for British Gypsum at Tutbury, and ended up on Walney Island near Barrow in Furness where it worked into the 1960's. Sadly it was scrapped in 1963.

Fernilee Cranes

by R. S-S On this photo you can see in the top left hand corner a glimpse of the temporary village.These huts were later taken down and used as homes in and around WB after the completion of the reservoir.

Comment by Buggyite

This is on the 3' gauge "main line", and looks very much like one of the Manning Wardle engines "Baslow" or "Derby"

Comment by Buggyite

The loco on this photograh looks very much like a Bagnall loco, of which there were 3 or 4 at Fernilee

Hillside crane

Fernilee house.

Fernilee ruins

Fernilee site buildings and worker's temporary village

Fernilee site road

Fernilee Valley brim cranes

Filter House

Filter House

Filter house 2014

Filter house 2014

Filter house 2014

Filter house 2014

Filter house 2014

Gravity incline

Lower Valve House

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Pipe laying

Pipe trench on High Peak Railway

Puddle Bar

Quarry, Comment by Buggyite

Issue Tor Quarry was at the top of the inclined railway, on the western side of the valley at about 1000 feet

Rail Men

Railway Ruins

Rotary boring machine

Engine No 2

Tallboy

Temporary Village. Comments by by R.S-S

The water for this temporary village came from Overhill Farm Fernilee on the other side of Long Hill.

This picture is of the temporary village erected for workers living accommodation during the construction of Fernilee Reservoir. I am indebted to Roland Melland, or Rolland as he seems to now prefer the French version of his name, for the following information:

Jack West opened up a pie shop when the workers started to arrive. This was situated at the top of the road just above the temporary village. Jack did a good trade with the workers and delivery people and so on. When the reservoir was complete the temporary huts were left there and gradually taken down one by one by locals and used for a variety of uses. Jack West got one and rebuilt it on the site now occupied by Roland's house. He called it Jack's Cafe; it later became Rita's Cafe. Rita is Roland's sister. Some of the others turned up in various places: Two were rebuilt at the Rookery Farm Cadster and two more were built in the field a bit further along the road towards Chapel. They were demolished in the 70's/80's and replaced with two stone built houses. Another was rebuilt up Diglee Road in Furness Vale at the back of the large house called Heatherby. That was demolished in about 2006 and a new house is also built there. The last one that we can think of was the Prefab opposite the entrance to Tesco's in Whaley which was demolished a couple of years ago. The plot has just been sold for development.

Temporary village

Trench 230 feet deep

Valve shaft widening

View over site

View from the west

Waste water course