No coal on this line
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The photograph on this page of No coal on this line by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.
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No coal on this line
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 20 Jun 2018
Neither as a fuel for the Bristol and North Somerset Railway locomotives, nor as a product of the collieries of Pensford and Radstock, this is the remnant line of the old tracks leading south from Bristol. It began life after a fairly torrid financial start in 1873. Having suffered from the loss of much of the coal fields around this area and also from the damage of the Great Storm of 1968 that forced the closure of the Pensford viaduct, the line finally closed in 1973. The tracks were ripped up and the land returned to agriculture. The hedge lines stand as a green monument to the old railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.391767
Longitude
-2.564634