A625 Mam Tor Road

[Runningman 148]

You cyclists will be interested to know that you can still ride part way up the old road, BUT, there are some small sections where it is necessary to get off and walk.

 

Memories of both riding up and down when the road was completely passable.

[mahonia 10]

You cyclists will be interested to know that you can still ride part way up the old road, BUT, there are some small sections where it is necessary to get off and walk.

 

Memories of both riding up and down when the road was completely passable.

 

Some more pictures here ive found which will back this comment

 

http://chavster01.fotopic.net/c1352727.html

[Falls 10]

Hi,

 

Some geo-tech engineer is probably going to tell me I'm wrong but I was told the road was built across/along the place where two rock formations meet.

 

That is: the limestone of the white peak and the millstone grit of the dark peak. Each formation is moving, ever so slightly, against the other. This and heavily loaded lorries was the reason why the road was always breaking up.

In my childhood, Mam Tor was also known as the "Shivering Mountain"

 

It was costing the Derbyshire CC a fortune to keep the road repaired and authorities were also under a lot of pressure to stop heavy lorries using the road anyway.

 

By closing it completely, they solved both problems.

 

Regards

[mahonia 10]

Some more pictures here

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthwatcher/2672960094/

[0742Sheff 10]

Just to add to that bit, have you ever tried getting up Winnets Pass in a 1.1 Escort with 5 adults in the car?

 

No but i have ridden up it 5 times on a bike. I loved it every time. Every car going past flash their lights and beep their horns. They know what we cyclists are going through to get up that dog of a hill.

 

Not that i could do it now though

[alchresearch 214]

I've got a 1970's OS map with a picture of a coach driving up the road on the front. I'll get a pic of it and upload later.

[mike-s 13]

As a sales rep I used to drive over once a month on my visits to customers Manchester and Liverpool way in the 70s. Had some fun times coming down winnats sideways in the snow after Mam Tor closed, but somehow never got stuck in all the years.

[saxon51 10]

Hi,

 

Some geo-tech engineer is probably going to tell me I'm wrong but I was told the road was built across/along the place where two rock formations meet.

 

That is: the limestone of the white peak and the millstone grit of the dark peak. Each formation is moving, ever so slightly, against the other. This and heavily loaded lorries was the reason why the road was always breaking up.

In my childhood, Mam Tor was also known as the "Shivering Mountain"

 

It was costing the Derbyshire CC a fortune to keep the road repaired and authorities were also under a lot of pressure to stop heavy lorries using the road anyway.

 

By closing it completely, they solved both problems.

 

Regards

I'd always believed that the reason for the instability was what is clearly visible when you get close to the bottom of the collapse or better still, halfway up the lefthand side .... shale layers sandwiched between clay layers. I could be wrong, of course, and just be believing rumours.

[Plain Talker 11]

You cyclists will be interested to know that you can still ride part way up the old road, BUT, there are some small sections where it is necessary to get off and walk.

 

Memories of both riding up and down when the road was completely passable.

 

I have good memories of my father taking me and my sister fossil-ling on top of Mam Tor back when we were youngsters. I remember that the road was getting dodgy, even then.

 

God! It was lovely out in the peaks. I love the scenery out in the Peak District. My sis and I would clamber on the hillside of Winnat's pass.

[Cyclone 10]

Sheffield Motor Cycle Club on Mam Tor, 1920

picturesheffield

 

Link didn't work

 

https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh/v00387.jpg

 

I think that's what you were trying to link to

[me-and-pippo 12]

Link didn't work

 

https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh/v00387.jpg

 

I think that's what you were trying to link to

It did in 2009,

thanks for that Cyclone.

[upinwath 10]

Just to add to that bit, have you ever tried getting up Winnets Pass in a 1.1 Escort with 5 adults in the car?

 

Been up on a 500cc single.

The power to weight ratio meant it I hardly knew there was a slight hill there.

 

/smug sod