Former course of the Midland main line
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Former course of the Midland main line
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 15 Apr 2011
This snap may only be of interest to bathroom or railway enthusiasts. The new building ahead stands where the Midland Railway main line from Nottingham to St Pancras via Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Corby and Kettering, closed in the 1960s, once crossed Radcliffe Road on a plate girder bridge. I stood where there was once an embankment to take the picture. The Melton line, which carried Nottingham's quickest London trains and brought iron ore north from Northamptonshire, turned south at London Road Junction, crossed the Trent on what is now the Lady Bay road bridge and ran north and south through West Bridgford, where its course shows clearly on the 1:25,000 map, and on the ground as a strip of new buildings built where there were once embankments. Image] and Image] show remains of the line south of here.
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Image Location
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52.938907
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-1.129803