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The aircraftt took off at 15:20 (all times are local: UTC+1) for a 50 minunte flight to Cracow's Balice airport. At 15.49 the first officer received a routine instruction: after passing Jędrzejów, some 50 km north of the destination, descend to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) and get in touch with the Balice control tower. Shortly before 16:00 the captain (who took over controls in the meantime) calls Balice, gives the altitude as 3,700 metres (12,100 ft), gets the local weather report and is instructed to descent to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft).

At 16:01 tha aircraft is at 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) and descending. In the next eight minutes a series of radio exchanges takes place between the aircraft and the Balice radar operator, with the captain repeatedly asking for the fix and reporting problems with the beacon signal, and the operator asking for the aircraft's position and altitude to help him to find the aircraft on the radar screen. At 16:05 the aircraft was near [[Maków Podhalański], some 50 km past the destination, at 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). Three minutes later the ratio contact was lost.

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History

In 1840s and 1850s NSR was trying to find a route from Macclesfield to Manchester independent of London and North West Railway (L&NWR), which insisted on any NSR's traffic going via Crewe, thus ensuring a higher L&NWR mileage and charges.

In 1863 Thomas Oliver, a Macclesfield businessman, promoted a scheme for a local line from Macclesfield via Bollington to Marple where it would connect with MS&LR. The line was hoped to revive Bollington's cotton industry, carry the stone from local quarries, and serve the collieries around Poynton.

The MS&LR seized on this scheme, seeing in the line another outlet for their. to the south, and the start of a possible independent extension to London. The line was authorised in 1864, with the MS&LR and NSR empowered to subscribe £80,000 each for its construction, and to operate and maintain it when open. But then the L&NWR, surprised by the success of the MB&MR, came to an amicable traffic agreement with the NSR thus the original purpose of the line - to provide the NSR with an independent route to Manchester - was lost. In these circumstances, and in the general trade depression of the mid-1860s the construction was very slow. The single-track line opened on 2 August 1869 for passengers only, goods traffic started on 1 March 1870 and in 1871 the line was doubled throughout.

Stations

When the line was opened, there were five stations on the line: Marple (Rose Hill), High Lane, Higher Poynton, Bollington and Macclesfield. In 1879 a station was opened at Middlewood .

Line closure

In the 1960s, the services on the ex-MB&MR line (in 1948 absorbed by the London Midland Region of British Railways were heavy loss makers. The line was closed on 5 January 1970 and track lifting south of Rose Hill was completed by March 1971. The stations at Higher Poynton and Bollington were demolished shortly thereafter, and High Lane Station however remained derelict for seven years after closure, until demolished in 1977.

Present-day use

Main article: Middlewood Way

The trackbed was turned into a "linear park" between Macclesfield and Rose Hill Marple, officially opened on 30 May 1985.

References

http://www.marple-uk.com/railways/c05_01.htm
http://www.happy-valley.org.uk/streets/grimshaw.htm ??
http://www.brocross.com/poynton/book/book9.htm
http://www.greatorme.org.uk/knottystudy.htm

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