Route of the old railway line
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Route of the old railway line
Image: © Row17 Taken: 28 Aug 2010
Built in 1860 as the Market Drayton to Stoke-on-Trent railway this line was closed during the Beeching era. It is still shown as a working line on the series seven OS map sheet 119 circa 1963, that cost me 6/6d (that's 32½p to the uninitiated) when new.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.948265
Longitude
-2.445843