The Brierley Branch Line
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Brierley Branch Line by Alan Walker as part of the Geograph project.
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The Brierley Branch Line
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 30 Jan 2018
The photograph shows the eastern end of the Brierley Branch Line. The Brierley Branch Line is part of the Phoenix Greenways Trails https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Phoenix%20Greenways%202015%20web_tcm44-159660.pdf and occupies what was the Midland Railway's Skegby Colliery Branch line. Ahead can be seen a Image where the Brierley Branch Line meets other paths and lanes. When this was a working railway there were sidings to the immediate right of this point and at the junction ahead there was a footbridge linking Brand Lane with Rooley Lane. Continuing ahead through what is now a slope the Midland Railway's Skegby Colliery Branch line passed through Sutton Colliery and terminated near a quarry close to Stoneyford Road. An OS map dated 1892-14 from the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=53.1365&lon=-1.2828&layers=168&right=osm shows the layout of the Skegby Colliery Branch tracks and the location of the footbridge. To see a photograph of the trail taken some 80m behind the viewpoint and looking in the opposite direction, click here:- Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.136526
Longitude
-1.283068