A625 Mam Tor Road

[mike-s]

As a sales rep I used to drive over once a month on my visits to customers Manchester and Liverpool way in the 70s. Had some fun times coming down winnats sideways in the snow after Mam Tor closed, but somehow never got stuck in all the years.

[saxon51]

Hi,

 

Some geo-tech engineer is probably going to tell me I'm wrong but I was told the road was built across/along the place where two rock formations meet.

 

That is: the limestone of the white peak and the millstone grit of the dark peak. Each formation is moving, ever so slightly, against the other. This and heavily loaded lorries was the reason why the road was always breaking up.

In my childhood, Mam Tor was also known as the "Shivering Mountain"

 

It was costing the Derbyshire CC a fortune to keep the road repaired and authorities were also under a lot of pressure to stop heavy lorries using the road anyway.

 

By closing it completely, they solved both problems.

 

Regards

I'd always believed that the reason for the instability was what is clearly visible when you get close to the bottom of the collapse or better still, halfway up the lefthand side .... shale layers sandwiched between clay layers. I could be wrong, of course, and just be believing rumours.

[Plain Talker]

You cyclists will be interested to know that you can still ride part way up the old road, BUT, there are some small sections where it is necessary to get off and walk.

 

Memories of both riding up and down when the road was completely passable.

 

I have good memories of my father taking me and my sister fossil-ling on top of Mam Tor back when we were youngsters. I remember that the road was getting dodgy, even then.

 

God! It was lovely out in the peaks. I love the scenery out in the Peak District. My sis and I would clamber on the hillside of Winnat's pass.

[Cyclone]

Sheffield Motor Cycle Club on Mam Tor, 1920

picturesheffield

 

Link didn't work

 

https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh/v00387.jpg

 

I think that's what you were trying to link to

[me-and-pippo]

Link didn't work

 

https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh/v00387.jpg

 

I think that's what you were trying to link to

It did in 2009,

thanks for that Cyclone.

[upinwath]

Just to add to that bit, have you ever tried getting up Winnets Pass in a 1.1 Escort with 5 adults in the car?

 

Been up on a 500cc single.

The power to weight ratio meant it I hardly knew there was a slight hill there.

 

/smug sod

[kal el]

ive been going up it for over 20 years it never gets boring.here is some history fgor you.

 

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslides/mamtor.html

[upinwath]

ive been going up it for over 20 years it never gets boring.here is some history fgor you.

 

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslides/mamtor.html

 

You aren't wrong. I first went when I was a kid and have been back a good few times. It's was as good the last time as it was the first.

"Spectacular" doesn't get close to doing the place justice.

[thecliffe]

The road was built hundreds of years ago before they knew about the sub soil problems.

It is built on soft ground but they knew nothing of geology at that time.

[choogling]

Just to add to that bit, have you ever tried getting up Winnets Pass in a 1.1 Escort with 5 adults in the car?

 

not surprising really it was a four seater.