Luton: Former Gallows Road railway bridge
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Luton: Former Gallows Road railway bridge
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 26 Aug 2011
This is the site of the former Great Northern Railway's Luton to Hertford line bridge over the former Gallows Road, now the A505 Kimpton Road. Having been opened around 1860 the line was finally closed to passenger traffic in 1965. This is the southern bridge abutment but the one on the other side of the road has been demolished. See Image The road is shown as Gallows Road on large scale Ordnance Survey mapping up to 1901, but by 1924 the mapping was showing that it had acquired its current moniker.
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