The Toy train set photo from Brian Duckworth via Facebook - from a post on Langley Mill and Aldercar bygones.
The Homesford works were completely reconstructed in 1970 by the South Derbyshire Water Board. For more information there is a leaflet entitled 'South Derbyshire Water Board - Official Opening of Homesford Works - 1970'. You will find it on this site in the PDF leaflets folder.
The railway wagons would have been used for supplying Coal and limestone to the Homesford Water Treatment Works. Briefly, the Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board was formed in 1901 out of necessity, because of the failing town water supplies by the 2 towns. They had to look further than their area of supply and found a reliable yield from the Meerbrook Sough, which is adjacent to the A6 road at Homesford. The Meerbrook Sough was a old drainage system constructed to drain now defunct lead workings. Coal would have been used to generate steam for the pumps and limestone was used to soften the water. The byproduct of the process was chalk which was sold and provided a considerable income. This may have been transported by rail, but I would have thought not by open wagons.
The Homesford works were completely reconstructed in 1970 by the South Derbyshire Water Board. For more information there is a leaflet entitled 'South Derbyshire Water Board - Official Opening of Homesford Works - 1970'. You will find it on this site in the PDF leaflets folder.
The railway wagons would have been used for supplying Coal and limestone to the Homesford Water Treatment Works. Briefly, the Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board was formed in 1901 out of necessity, because of the failing town water supplies by the 2 towns. They had to look further than their area of supply and found a reliable yield from the Meerbrook Sough, which is adjacent to the A6 road at Homesford. The Meerbrook Sough was a old drainage system constructed to drain now defunct lead workings. Coal would have been used to generate steam for the pumps and limestone was used to soften the water. The byproduct of the process was chalk which was sold and provided a considerable income. This may have been transported by rail, but I would have thought not by open wagons.