Eden Valley Line

The Eden Valley Line is a railway line that connects Welby and Graveshead through the Eden Valley in Eastern Etorea. The railway was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway as far as Beckett in 1874 with the line being completed when Welby station was opened in 1877. The line carried heavy milk traffic due to the large ammounts of land that were taken up by fields specifically for cows to graze, the line also carried the cows to the market to be sold to another farm or to be slaugtered. The line was taken over by the Etorean National Railways when they were formed after the ECR merged with several other companies.
  Proposals for the line were first put foreward by the Ambion & Brichouses Railway due to their links to the docks at Birchouses enableing the products from the farm to be sold further than the farm's neighbours. The initial bill was rejected but was resurveyed and resubmitted to parliament. By the time it was passed, however, the A&BR had become part of the Eastern Counties Railway. The line was complete and in running order by 1877 with the newly arrived "Moon" Class №85 "Satelite" running the first train from Welby on 10th July 1877. It was formed of a brake van, two open cattle wagons. a coal wagon and four coaches built in the 1860s, it arrived in Graveshead five minutes early at 15:17 PM. The line was double tracked throughout enableing running trains in both directions, this was challenged as the climb up to Whitwell and onwards to Graveshead with a shed being built at Beckett for a banking engine to be kept.
  In 1919, the line fell under the ownership of the ENR who allocated two ex - London, Brighton & South Coast Railway A1 "Terrier" tanks, A Ex - North British Railway C Class and leter three ENR Standard Class 3s to run the line. This caused "Moon" Class №80 "Rhea" to be withdrawn from banking duties after remaining on them for the last eighteen years of her working life. In 1938, the ENR ordered a 0-4-0+0-4-0T Garratt locomotvie from Beyer, Peacock in Manchester, England numbering it 50636 after her arrival in summer 1939 being put to work banking trains up the Whitwell Incline.
  In the 50s, the line was electrified as part of modernisation efforts by the ENR with equipment being provided by Siemens-Schuckertwerke of Munich in Germany and early goods locomotives by English Electric. The last steam hauled (non railtour) passenger train on the line arrived at Graveshead at 19:47 PM on 12th April 1969 with electric traction fully taking over the line from that point onwards. Today the Eden Valley Line forms the eastern most section of the South Highland Line.