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Old Railway Cottage History
(circa 1906) 
The Old Railway Cottage was built in 1906. The North Motton Station was moved in resent years to the local Museum. The Nietta Railway was constructed via North Motton and Preston and was officially opened on December the 20th 1915. This stimulated settlements and developments in the area such as potato farming. The service was ended in 1958 after the improvement of roads and motor transport made it no longer financially viable. The first people settled in the North Motton district in 1859 and the area was named after a village in Devon England of the same name. Their house was built on the site of the North Motton school. In 1880 a road was built to access North Motton from Ulverstone. 
Some of the rocks on the east beach of Ulverstone are around 700 million years old and
some 500 million years ago the area was tropical and volcanic which caused the steep sided mountainous area to the West of Ulverstone, known as the Dial Range. A visit to the Gunns Plains Caves gives a visitor some idea of the vast age of the area. |
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