The Keelings, Cinderford
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The Keelings, Cinderford
Image: © John Winder Taken: 24 May 2020
This remarkably dull view of a modern housing estate has very little to commend it, other than that it shows the site of Cinderford's railway station, opened by the Severn & Wye Railway in 1900. The station on this site was actually the town's third station: the S&W had opened two previous stations a fair trek from the town and were eventually forced to extend their line into this site closer to the town centre. The only other point of interest is that Keeling was the family name of two successive chief engineers of the Severn & Wye Company, father and son George William Keeling and George Baker Keeling, the second of whom was responsible for the design of the ill-fated Severn Railway Bridge, and it's nice to see that the name lives on! A roughly equivalent view of the station in its heyday can be seen at http://www.forestprints.co.uk/railway_station_cinderford_v1.htm
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Image Location
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51.824249
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