Site of UK's first Automatic Half Barrier level crossing, Spath, Staffordshire
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Site of UK's first Automatic Half Barrier level crossing, Spath, Staffordshire
Image: © Simon Johnson Taken: 12 Nov 2005
Looking southwest, taken from the point where the railway used to cross this minor road, the crossing being the first in the UK to be converted to Automatic Half Barrier operation in 1961. Practically no trace of the crossing remains apart from a few concrete foundations for the east side barrier
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Image Location
Latitude
52.915056
Longitude
-1.873553