Reclaimed railway cutting near Annesley
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Reclaimed railway cutting near Annesley
Image: © Trevor Rickard Taken: 6 Feb 2010
Looking north-west along the line of pylons to Robin Hood's Hills. Today a quiet patch of arable land, but once this was a main line railway. Between the 1890s and 1960s, the Great Central Railway ran along here and entered Kirkby Tunnel just ahead... https://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/getobject?rnum=L2775 This land was the rock cutting south of the tunnel and a few hundred yards behind was Hollingwell Station. Kirkby Tunnel and the cutting have been filled in and there is no sign of the station, which closed in the 1940s, except that the refreshment hut at the 9th of the nearby Notts Golf Club is still called the Hollingwell Halt. This also explains the curious shape of the public footpath route, which would have originally run along each side of the cutting. A good example of how a landscape can change over time.
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Image Location
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53.084067
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-1.231537