The old incline

This is the route of a standard gauge railway rope-worked incline built to carry coal from the Albert and Blackcroft Pits of Poynton Collieries down to a coal yard on the turnpike road where transshipment to carts for Stockport took place. The isolated line was built in the early 1840s and after the main line connection was made via the Prince's Incline in 1845 it was abandoned by 1848. Although abandoned for over 170 years the earthworks remain very obvious and are now used as a pleasant footpath.