Old railway bridge abutments at Hoovers Lane
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Old railway bridge abutments at Hoovers Lane
Image: © John Winder Taken: 25 Apr 2014
Another view of the remains of the Hoovers Lane bridge. You'll have to look at my other photo of this for the potted history, but basically this entire railway should never have been built and, even when it was completed, trains never ran over it. Apparently, the station master at Cinderford, whose daughter was at boarding school in Hereford sometime before the First World War, used to send her trunk up to Mitcheldean Road station on one of those little man powered pump along trucks at the beginning of each term, all the way from Bilson Junction. This task was carried out by two porters from Cinderford, who must surely have been performing above and beyond the call of duty. It must have been a hard slog up to the summit of the line at Hawthorns Tunnel. I like the idea of this entire railway being constructed solely to facilitate the transport of a schoolgirl's belongings twice every school term.
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51.885919
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-2.508331