Broadwoodwidger: Tower Hill
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Broadwoodwidger: Tower Hill
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 28 May 2007
The site of the former station, built by the London & South West Railway, on the line to Wadebridge and Padstow, now a smallholding. It was 218 miles from London Waterloo. The route became known by cynics as the ‘Withered Arm’, but in 1943 this station had extra sidings constructed to serve ammunition dumps in the hinterland for the United States military
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Image Location
Latitude
50.690506
Longitude
-4.31046