Corkickle Brake
| Corkickle Brake | |
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| Overview | |
| Other name(s) | Kells Brake Marchon Brake Monkwray Brake |
| Status | Closed |
| Locale | Whitehaven, Cumbria, England |
| Service | |
| Type | Heavy rail |
| History | |
| Opened | 1880 |
| 1933 | Mothballed |
| 1955 | Re-opened |
| 1986 | Closed completely |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 525 yards (480 m) |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Operating speed | 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) (max speed) |
| Highest elevation | 300 feet (90 m) (Incline top) |
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The Corkickle Brake was a standard-gauge incline railway in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The incline was built in 1880 to transfer coal from the mines on the cliffs of the Cumbrian coast near to Whitehaven, to the railway line inland at Corkickle. When the coal mines ceased operation, the incline was closed (1933), but later re-opened to serve products going into, and out of, the Marchon chemical works on the cliff. The railway closed in 1986, and was the last standard-gauge incline railway in England.