Railway bridges east of Saxby Junction
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Railway bridges east of Saxby Junction
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 17 Jun 2010
Saxby Junction (a couple of hundred yards to the right) was where the Saxby & Bourne Railway - the westernmost part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast joined the Midland line from Leicester (Syston Junction) to Peterborough. The Saxby & Bourne closed in 1959 but the Leicester-Peterborough line is still an important cross-country route. The nearer of these two bridges over the infant River Eye is the abandoned S&B one. Behind the camera is the embankment of Lord Harborough's Curve, abandoned as long ago as 1892, described in the captions to some of my pictures in SK8219.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.763297
Longitude
-0.787108