The entrance to Melbourne Park Medical centre
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The entrance to Melbourne Park Medical centre by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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The entrance to Melbourne Park Medical centre
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 4 Jun 2008
The reason that there is a gap between the houses is that this is the alignment of a former colliery railway that ran parallel to Nuthall Road. It continued to serve a landsale wharf into the 1960s. It crossed Melbourne Road by a level crossing.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.976113
Longitude
-1.192051