High level and low level lines towards Patchway railway station
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High level and low level lines towards Patchway railway station
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 13 May 2015
Viewed from the A38 Gloucester Road. A cutting and an embankment are side by side. The line on the left was the original single-track line to Patchway railway station which opened nearby in 1863. After the Severn Tunnel opened in 1886, so many trains brought coal from South Wales that the second track on the right had to be built. The new track was at a different level, so the station had to be moved further south to its present site out of shot ahead, where the lines are at the same level.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.530769
Longitude
-2.566353