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Letters
Letters
Trolley Follies • Having Trouble With Rickman • Religion Between The Lines • Painting Pictures, Painting Selves • Shakespearian Emissions
Trolley Follies
Dear Editor: This summer I visited the Sheep Pasture Incline, a mile-long 1-in-7 hill connecting the High Peak Railway with the canal basin near Cromford, Derbyshire. Trucks were winched up and down it by huge cables. In 1888 there was an accident when two trucks became detached from their hauling cable and careered down the hill, ending up in a field beyond the canal. It was with great interest therefore that I read Phil Badger’s article ‘How to get off our Trolleys’ in Issue 86, in which a runaway trolley is heading for a group of men who are unable to get out of the way. If a lever is thrown in time, the trolley can be diverted towards one man, who is also unable to get out of the way.
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