In the last BRJ we mentioned that we had been unable to trace a gradient profile for the line and that means the climb on the remainder of the route to Brill remains a little vague. In Charles Lees' 1935 account of the line in the Railway Magazine he wrote that except for a lA mile, the 2% miles from Wotton to Brill climbed on continuous gradients varying between 1 in 100 and 1 in 51, whilst E. J. S. Gadesden in his booklet Duke of Buckingham's Railways (published 1962) wrote that after Wotton 'the line now curves westwards and immediately starts the almost unbroken climb to Brill, 2% miles away, during which the tramway ascends 130 feet'.
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