Helmsley Road, Rainworth, Notts.
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Helmsley Road, Rainworth, Notts.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 11 Jan 2015
Here the Mansfield Way (a medium distance trail) is approaching Helmsley Road where walkers wishing to continue to follow the trail need to cross this residential road and to descend on the opposite side of it to pick up former route used by the Mansfield-Southwell Railway. A 2.5 mile long railway was built from Rolleston Junction on the Nottingham-Lincoln line to Southwell in 1847. In April 1871 the line was extended to Mansfield. This extension helped further development of the coalfield east of Mansfield, so much so that the increasing amount of coal-related traffic resulted in the whole line being doubled in the 1920s. The line closed to passengers in 1959.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.1243
Longitude
-1.134133