Site of Milkwall station from the trackbed
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Site of Milkwall station from the trackbed
Image: © John Winder Taken: 5 Oct 2019
The road in the background used to cross the railway on a girder bridge, demolished some time in the 1970s after the line closed. Milkwall station platform, complete with rather ugly brick building (a replacement for the original wooden station building which was unpopular with passengers and which mysteriously "went on fire" in 1923 ... oddly, a similar fate had befallen the equally unpopular wooden station building at Coleford five years earlier) was where the fence is now. This was also the site of the junction for the Sling branch which was under a mile long and served Fred Watkins' engineering works at Sling.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.780642
Longitude
-2.601803