Approach to Gloucester station
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The photograph on this page of Approach to Gloucester station by John Winder as part of the Geograph project.
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Approach to Gloucester station
Image: © John Winder Taken: 19 Jul 2014
Taken from the footbridge. I had to hold my camera above the footbridge walls and take this blind, which is why it's a bit too dark! The station used to be known as Gloucester Central and was one of two stations in the centre of Gloucester: the other one was to the right of this shot, roughly where the low building is beyond the parked car. The history of the railways in Gloucester is far too complex to go into in a Geograph caption, but if you're interested it's all here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_railway_station
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Image Location
Latitude
51.86493
Longitude
-2.23725