Remnant of the Great Central Main Line, St Margaret's Way, Leicester
Introduction
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Remnant of the Great Central Main Line, St Margaret's Way, Leicester
Image: © Tim Heaton Taken: 26 Apr 2022
Part of a fast rail route between Manchester/Sheffield and London built in the 1890s - the last main line railway to be built in Britain during the Victorian period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Central_Main_Line . This section closed in the 1960s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.644488
Longitude
-1.141568