Sneinton: Meadow Lane railway bridge
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Sneinton: Meadow Lane railway bridge
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 8 Sep 2010
In the golden age of railways, six tracks - the main passenger and goods lines into the Great Northern station at London Road - crossed Meadow Lane here. Since the railway closed, the bridge - which now carries a footpath from Sneinton Hermitage to Trent Lane - has been much reduced in size and the embankments to the north removed and the land used for housing. The bridge is now the equivalent of single-track width, along the line of what was once the slow arrival line. The view eastwards shows what was the rising gradient to Trent Lane Junction, where the GNR, on its way to Grantham, crossed the Midland (the current line to Newark and Lincoln and to Grantham).
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Image Location
Latitude
52.947708
Longitude
-1.128584