Dunstall Viaduct from Gorsebrook Road
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Dunstall Viaduct from Gorsebrook Road
Image: © John M Taken: 25 Mar 2007
The blue brick viaduct carries the main line north from Wolverhampton towards Crewe. The area south of Gorsebrook Road was the Stafford Road Works of the GWR from 1849. Between 1859 and 1908 over 800 locomotives were built on this site. The workshops finally closed in 1964. The rail track here was put in at great expense to remember this trade. I am told that when the circus came to town in the 1950s that the elephants were housed in the grey building. They were walked here from the nearby railway halt.
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Image Location
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52.602034
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-2.131661