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28th August 2010

Leekbrook Junction to Caldon Low PRESS RELEASE

Click here for a joint press release on a proposed celebration event on the 13th November 2010.

CVR Plc & MCR Ltd - 5th July 2010

Statement by the CVR Chairman on Proposed Joint Working Arrangements:

The Churnet Valley Railway (CVR) has been working very closely on this project with Moorland & City Railways (MCR) and believe the purchase of the lines back to Stoke, east to Caldon Low and north towards Leek will be of immense benefit to ourselves and the local community. These lines when restored will allow the CVR to accept excursion traffic, prestigious guest locomotives and will eventually enable local stations to be reconnected to the network. The whole project is tremendously interesting and exciting and will give CVR a considerable increase in route mileage at little or no cost to the company.

A Hancock Chairman CVR Plc - 15th October 2009

FOXT-based historian John Sutton said that Caldon Low and Cauldon Lowe are actually two different places. He told Your Leek Paper:- "Caldon Low is the quarry, and Cauldon Lowe is the village.
Caldon Low, the quarry, used to be an ancient burial site, which is probably why the village was spelled differently in order to differentiate between the two of them. "To add to the confusion there is also the village of Cauldon, which is just down the road from Cauldon Lowe."