The Huddersfield to Sheffield Railway
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The Huddersfield to Sheffield Railway
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 18 Mar 2015
Looking southwards from the footbridge off the top of Burbeary Road. The retaining wall has puzzling arched recesses that I have also seen elsewhere. I have been informed that they are "refuges for people at work on the railway in areas of limited clearance. When a train approaches you duck in there until it passes." A track is shown close to the wall on the 1906 1:2500 map. This was the approach to the junction with the Meltham branch line and the normal two tracks were supplemented by slanting 'slip' tracks.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.631361
Longitude
-1.800807