Three Locomotive Wheels, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Railway Station.
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Three Locomotive Wheels, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Railway Station.
Image: © John Topping Taken: 25 Jun 2013
These locomotive wheels commemorate Kirkby as an historic railway town and celebrate the opening of the new Kirkby in Ashfield station on the Robin Hood Line. The wheels were taken from an 08 shunting locomotive, of a type which operated in the Kirkby summit railway yards until the late 1960's. Details off the information plaque dated 12/11/1996.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.099666
Longitude
-1.253064