Railway bridge south of Tattenham Corner
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Railway bridge south of Tattenham Corner
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 18 Jan 2018
This rather neglected footpath must once have been a wide, well-used farm-track. Why else would the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (arriving circa 1900) have built such a substantial bridge? There is clearance enough for a hay-wagon - foot-traffic and livestock could have been accommodated by a tunnel with much less headroom. Or perhaps there was quarry traffic- I notice that the name of a patch of woodland east of the railway is given by the OS as Pit Wood. The line runs north to its terminus at Tattenham Corner, south to Tadworth (before turning north-east towards Purley and London).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.301959
Longitude
-0.240733