Tunstall Drive: once a railway embankment
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Tunstall Drive: once a railway embankment
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 21 Jun 2011
Tunstall Drive is built where the Great Central Railway main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield and Manchester once ran - on the top of an embankment in the region of 40ft above the present road level. The trees in the background grow on the slope of the truncated embankment and give an idea of how wide the earthworks were. Bagthorpe Junction and its signal box once stood roughly where I stood to take this picture, but a long way above my head. The scene at the top of what remains of the embankment is shown in Image], and for more about the railway network in these parts, see Image], Image], Image] and others.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.985764
Longitude
-1.17057