Merchants Railway, Isle of Portland
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Merchants Railway, Isle of Portland
Image: © A-M-Jervis Taken: 6 Jul 2007
The wall in the right foreground is part of the dry "moat" surrounding the Verne prison. This deep vertical-walled cutting continues round the hillside above the grey stone screes on the right. Below this the path curving to disappear behind the diagonally sloping stone wall is the main line of the Merchants (or Portland) Railway that ran from Castletown, near the dockyard, to Priory Corner and quarries on the west side of the Isle.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.559711
Longitude
-2.437452