Site of Milkwall station
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Site of Milkwall station
Image: © John Winder Taken: 5 Oct 2019
The Severn & Wye Joint Railway's Coleford branch - now a footpath and cycle track - ran from left to right towards Coleford. In the centre of the photo, where the wooden fence is, was Milkwall station, which lost its passenger service with the rest of the S&WJR system in 1929. Threading through the industrial buildings in the background was the Sling branch, which was under a mile long and was converted from a tramway in 1876 by the S&WJR using money loaned to them by W. H. Fryer, a local ironworks owner, on the understanding that until the loan was repaid his traffic would be carried for free or at reduced rates. The last train ran on the Sling branch on December 31st 1965, although it was only officially closed with the Coleford line in August 1967. Information in this caption is mostly from Neil Parkhouse's excellent book "Forest of Dean Lines and the Severn Bridge" from the "British Railway History in Colour" series. The book also contains a 1965 photo taken from the same viewpoint as my picture.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.780642
Longitude
-2.601803