Disused railway bridge
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Disused railway bridge
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 29 Apr 2009
This bridge used to carry trains of the Midland and Great Northern Railway line over a rural lane. The trackbed has since been dismantled. Briston and Melton Constable merge into each other and if it were not for the village sign it would be difficult to discern where the one ends and the other begins. For 50 years Melton Constable was the hub of a network of railway lines which were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Railway and left from Melton station in four directions. As recently as 1956, 32 trains per day passed through the station. A victim of the Beeching cuts, the last passenger train arrived on 4. April 1964.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.84796
Longitude
1.05814