Camberley: Heathcote Road level crossing
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Camberley: Heathcote Road level crossing
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Jun 2011
The London & South Western Railway opened their Ascot to Aldershot route through here and through Camberley station in 1878. This is the view looking towards Bagshot from the station footbridge. The railway was unusually quiet, even for a Sunday, as trains were largely suspended in the area while Network Rail were trying to repair damage reputedly caused by an attempted cable theft in the Woking area on 9 June 2011. The Ordnance Survey map of the 1870s offers a snapshot of the time with the swathe cut for the route marked as "Unfinished Railway" and a road to a country house called Heathcote running across it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.336398
Longitude
-0.743451