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Original Text (Annotation: EPW050213 / 407527)

' Werneth Incline, on the Oldham Werneth to Middleton Junction railway. The steepest adhesion worked railway in Britain, at 1 in 27 for a distance of approx 1 mile. Closed circa 1965. '

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