Track of the GWR branch from Newnham and Cinderford to Drybrook and Mitcheldean Road, 1954

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Track of the GWR branch from Newnham and Cinderford to Drybrook and Mitcheldean Road, 1954

Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 1 May 1954

The view is roughly NW, just north of Drybrook off the road to Puddlebrook, of the track, just south of Euroclydon Tunnel, of the mineral extension of the GWR branch from Cinderford to Drybrook, to Mitcheldean Road (on the Ross-on-Wye - Hereford line). A passenger service ran from Cinderford to Drybrook Halt until July 1936, but part of the stretch north from Drybrook may not have been used at all, part having been taken up in February 1917 - only 10 years after it was laid. The precise location of this photograph - of 'just trees' - is a little bit uncertain but relates to a railway seldom recorded.

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