Air shaft, Upper Peel Street, Dewsbury
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Air shaft, Upper Peel Street, Dewsbury
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 4 Mar 2010
This is on the former Dewsbury and Batley Branch Line, part of the Great Northern Railway in 1907. It went in a tunnel through a spur of hillside, avoiding the floor of the valley. While it is in the tunnel, the Dewsbury to Leeds line (LNER in 1907), the present railway, crosses over it.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.696571
Longitude
-1.630417