North Watford: Balmoral Road railway bridge
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North Watford: Balmoral Road railway bridge
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 21 Sep 2008
The bridge carries the railway from Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey over Balmoral Road. When the railway was built in 1858 this was all agricultural land. A narrow low bridge was provided through the new railway embankment for agricultural access only. This bridge with only 10' 9" headroom survived to 1960 to be a real bottleneck to traffic, until it was replaced with the current one.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.671573
Longitude
-0.393051