West along the Paddington to the west railway, Stratton, Swindon
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West along the Paddington to the west railway, Stratton, Swindon
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 16 Sep 2014
The line at the right of the various lines was once the point at which The Swindon & Highworth Light Railway left the main line to the small town of Highworth. It was never very successful and was in fact taken over by the Great Western Railway before it ever ran any trains of its own http://www.highworth.freeuk.com/history.htm The rails still exist into the former Rover Group plant (now BMW MINI body plant) as up until certainly the 1990s trains from Rover ran down the line to the Longbridge plant in Birmingham carrying car body panels. The lower part of the line is still in use by the nearby EMR scrap metal company to ship out processed scrap metal. The building just to the right of the line is on the site of a signal box. The viewpoint is the footbridge over the railway from Stratton Road to Gipsy Lane.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.571375
Longitude
-1.765052