Old railway embankment, Coulsdon
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Old railway embankment, Coulsdon
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 21 Nov 2010
One of the few remains of the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway, a horse-drawn plateway dating from 1805. It never got as far as Godstone. It expired in 1838 when the true railway age arrived, being bought out and partly built on by the London and Brighton Railway. This embankment was needed to cross the Chipstead Valley, the embankment once continued to the right, where there was bridge over the road.
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Image Location
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51.318322
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-0.141518