Aylesbury to Princes Risborough railway
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Aylesbury to Princes Risborough railway
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 7 Jun 2006
Viewed looking towards Aylesbury from the Mandeville Road pedestrian crossing, this is the opposite view to Image The 1884 Ordnance Survey map shows how the railway cut through the original road to Stoke Mandeville from Aylesbury at this location and why the diversion route of the current road had to be constructed to the east of the railway, beyond the bushes to the right. This is the site of the long since closed South Aylesbury Halt, as shown on the 1940s Ordnance Survey mapping.
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Image Location
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51.804224
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-0.810694