Newark Dyke Bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Newark Dyke Bridge by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
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Newark Dyke Bridge
Image: © John Sutton Taken: Unknown
This is the third girder bridge to carry the East Coast Main Line across the Trent north of Newark. The original wrought- and cast-iron structure lasted from 1852-89 and its replacement until 2000, when this bridge - only two years old when the picture was taken - was slid into place over the August Bank Holiday. In the olden days this was a good place for trainspotting, with exciting expresses on the ECML and more prosaic locals on the Nottingham-Lincoln line behind the camera - not to mention barges on the river to watch in between trains, stones to throw and sherbet lemons to suck. It seems amazing to me now that as 12-year-olds my friends and I used to cycle here for the day from Nottingham, via Oxton and Southwell.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.092425
Longitude
-0.805949