Railway trackbed, Black Roads
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Railway trackbed, Black Roads
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 10 Aug 2016
There was once a railway here which served ICI at Billingham. It was probably built in the 1920s and does not feature on the 1920 6" map. The railway is shown as open on a 1979 1:50,000 map. The land here is shown in the 1950s as farmland between Norton and Billingham although there is evidence of industrial use on the ground. It is now home to formal and informal recreational space, woodland and a prison.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.579309
Longitude
-1.301301