Level crossing, Victoria Road, Netherfield
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Level crossing, Victoria Road, Netherfield
Image: © Richard Vince Taken: 11 Feb 2014
The railway here is the Great Northern Railway's "back line", which turned through 180 degrees around the edge of greater Nottingham to head eventually west into Derbyshire. After closure as a through route in the early 1960s, this section survived to provide rail access to Gedling Colliery, which closed in 1991. Although the track and the level crossing infrastructure here remain substantially intact, fencing has been erected behind the crossing gates (left), apparently to prevent anyone from surprising the local residents hereabouts with a train.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.96211
Longitude
-1.071721