Axholme Joint Railway Trivia

Epworth was the birth place of the Wesley brothers. The AJR benefited from visitors to this centre of Methodism.
Reedness Junction was about four miles from the village of Reedness.
Axholme was originally called Axeyholme. Ax being Celtic for water; Ey was Old English for island and Holme is Danish for island and then it was prefixed "Isle of"!
The line was laid with 80 lb rail, this was standard at the time; under the Light railway order, it could have been laid with 60lb rail.
In 1926, there were 4,000 tons of peas carried by the railway.

Thank you to Richard Barron for the above information.