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2024-03-29T06:47:10+00:00text/html2006-05-21T20:32:15+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.871938 0.490198TF6733 : Snettisham, Norfolk
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At Snettisham, 1½ miles north of Dersingham (see TF6830) the former station is now a residence whilst the goods shed is used for motor vehicles repairs. In 2004 the signal box (complete with lever frame and track diagram) was moved to Hardingham on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.text/html2006-05-21T20:29:04+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.848494 0.493311TF6830 : Dersingham, Norfolk
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In 1862 the Lynn & Hunstanton Railway (L&HR) opened a line connecting King's Lynn and Hunstanton. It merged with the West Norfolk Junction Railway in 1874 to form the Hunstanton & West Norfolk Railway which in turn was absorbed by the Great Eastern Railway in 1890. At the grouping in 1923 it came under the control of the LNER and BR closed it to all traffic on 5 May 1969.
At Dersingham, midway between the two towns, the station house, both platforms, buildings, canopies and signal box survive intact, in use as offices and stores for Semba Trading (builder's merchant's). See also [[TF6733]].text/html2006-05-21T17:41:12+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.734119 -3.185923SO1804 : Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
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Top of the former incline above the site of Marine Colliery at Cwmtext/html2006-05-21T17:32:57+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.718083 -3.171027SO1902 : Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
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View north to site of Marine Colliery from Craig Fawrtext/html2006-05-21T17:27:15+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.685186 -3.142404ST2199 : Crumlin, Caerphilly
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Disused Crumlin Navigation Colliery from Trinant Halltext/html2006-03-04T20:13:08+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.955886 -1.981036SP0128 : Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/131962
View east to Winchcombe from the Gloucestershire Way on Langley Hilltext/html2006-02-25T20:27:42+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.658783 -3.166606ST1996 : Disused tunnel at Ton-y-pistyll, Newbridge, Caerphilly
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The railway between Risca in the Ebbw Valley and Markham Colliery in the Sirhowy Valley passed under the A472 (now unclassified) at Ton-y-pistyll, by means of the 239 yds-long Penar Tunnel. This is the west portal of the tunnel.text/html2006-02-25T20:24:29+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.659739 -3.160847ST1996 : Disused tunnel at Ton-y-pistyll, Newbridge, Caerphilly
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The railway between Risca in the Ebbw Valley and Markham Colliery in the Sirhowy Valley passed under the A472 (now unclassified) at Ton-y-pistyll, by means of the 239 yds-long Penar Tunnel. This is the east portal of the tunnel.text/html2006-02-25T20:21:06+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.650948 -3.140386ST2195 : Overgrown railway trackbed approaching the site of Pantyresk level crossing at West End in Ebbw Vale
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A private plateway built by Benjamin Hall* was opened about 1811 from the Monmouthshire Canal at Risca up to Manmoel Colliery (in the Upper Sirhowy Valley). The Great Western Railway leased it in 1877 and converted the section in the Sirhowy Valley to standard gauge. The Ebbw Vale section was also converted to standard gauge but not until 1912. Most of the line survived until 1991 to serve Oakdale Colliery, by which time it was one of the oldest lines to remain in use.
*Hall's son, also named Benjamin, designed the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament and gave his name to the bell, 'Big Ben.'text/html2006-02-25T20:15:34+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson51.628516 -3.135489ST2192 : Pontywaun, Ebbw Vale, Caerphilly
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In this north east view, taken from the Ebbw Valley Walk on the west side of the valley, the disused Hall's Railway Viaduct can be seen crossing the A467.text/html2006-02-22T20:04:35+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.761816 -1.263450SK4918 : Temple of Venus, Garendon Park, Loughborough
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Considerable landscaping has taken place here in recent years. In the foreground of this view there was once a bridge carrying the Coalville - Loughborough railway line. text/html2006-02-22T20:00:29+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.763043 -1.318262SK4618 : Disused railway cutting, Blackbrook Wood, Shepshed, Leicestershire
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Until 1955 the railway carried goods traffic between Coalville and Loughborough, passenger trains having ceased as early as 1931. Today this section provides a pleasant, traffic-free walk Into Shepshed.text/html2006-02-22T19:56:19+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.765756 -1.321184SK4518 : bridge under former railway at Blackbrook, Shepshed, Leicestershire.
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A public footpath that runs from the A512 at Ringing Hill passes under this disused railway bridge then follows Black Brook to Hallamford Road at Carr Bridge.text/html2006-02-22T19:53:42+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.764958 -1.338980SK4418 : bridge over disused railway near Low Woods, Leicestershire
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/126636
North of Thringstone the Charnwood Forest Railway turned east and passed under this three-arched red-brick bridge. This view is looking west.text/html2006-02-22T19:48:38+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/2091Ralph Rawlinson52.758771 -1.358338SK4318 : Grace Dieu Viaduct, Thringstone, Leicestershire
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This disused viaduct was on Charnwood Forest Railway three miles north of Coalville. It takes its name from the nearby, but now ruined, Grace Dieu Priory and brook of the same which it crossed.