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World War II remains near Leadburn

At twenty past six on a cloudy March afternoon, the light is beginning to fade but there is just enough to pick out a square of timbers on the ground to the north of Easter Deans chicken farm. During the Second World War the railway from Leadburn to Broomilee (near West Linton), which had closed to passengers in 1933, was taken over by the War Department to serve a number of military stores depots scattered across the moors. One of these was about halfway between Leadburn and Lamancha and here the Army installed a loop line and some sidings to buildings away from the running line; the remains of one of the brick survivors can be made out as a dark rectangle to the left of the picture. The square of timbers was the base of a ground frame, a row of interlocked levers from which the loop line points could be operated.