Looking west from Whaddon Road bridge
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Looking west from Whaddon Road bridge
Image: © Bob Walters Taken: 24 Jun 2021
Whaddon Road crosses the old LNWR railway line from Bletchley to Oxford north west of Newton Longville. The line is currently being rebuilt by East West Railway to provide express services between Milton Keynes and Oxford. This was the site of former WW2 freight sidings known as 'Swanbourne Sidings'. In the late fifties, it was planned to open a large mechanised freight marshalling yard here, to take long distance freight trains away from the London area. This never happened, but the legacy was Bletchley Flyover, the only part of the project completed.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.977885
Longitude
-0.788047