High Wycombe: Bowden Lane railway bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of High Wycombe: Bowden Lane railway bridge by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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High Wycombe: Bowden Lane railway bridge
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 13 Aug 2008
The bridge was built to carry Brunel's broad gauge railway to High Wycombe from Maidenhead over Bowden Lane. The railway here crossed the valley of the River Wye on a long high embankment and the photograph gives some indication of the amount of materials that the railway navvies had to manhandle. The railway opened in 1854, but was closed and the track was lifted in 1970. For a view along the trackbed on top of the embankment see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.62174
Longitude
-0.729231