"The Ski Jump" and other shared nicknames

"The Ski Jump" and other shared nicknames

Re: "The Ski Jump" and other shared nicknames

Posted by Mark A at 09:30, 25th August 2025

"The Alps"? Applied to the late-built Wimbledon to Sutton line, and also the Alton - Winchester route.

Mark

"The Ski Jump" and other shared nicknames

Posted by grahame at 09:25, 25th August 2025

A post I read ... elsewhere ... mentioned "The Ski Jump" on the Apedale Railway, and another post I've come across is a video of a train doing "The Ski Jump" of the East Lancs Railway.

Are there any other lines know as "The Ski Jump" ... or any other shared nicknames for sections of line in multiple places? Think I may have heard "back road" several times and "up the hill" for Wirksworth and for Dowlais - or am I imagining things?

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