IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Machin Drive, LEICESTER, LE9 6HP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Machin Drive, LE9 6HP by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (13 Images Found)
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Broughton Astley Station and Down local train
View southward, towards Rugby; ex-Midland Rugby - Leicester line. In the days when thousands of tons of coal had to be conveyed daily from the Midlands coalfields to London and the South-East, a number of coal trains from Toton and other yards ran to the yards at Willesden (Sudbury Junction) in addition to all those up the Midland Main Line via Wellingbrough to Brent Sidings (Cricklewood). However, by the 1960s this line was superfluous and was closed (with the station) on 1/1/62. The train is a Rugby to Leicester local, headed by LMS Fowler 4P 2-6-4T No. 42352.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 24 Apr 1961
0.14 miles
3
Broughton Astley
Broughton Astley has seen a large amount of new development in recent years. This is the south eastern edge of the village where housing has almost encroached as far as this footpath, which leads across the bridge over a disused railway, just visible in the trees.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 2 Jul 2006
0.16 miles
4
Broughton Astley Station
View NE, towards Leicester; ex-Midland Leicester - Rugby line. The line had formerly been a useful route for coal traffic to London (Willesden), but was closed, with this station, completely on 1/1/62.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 24 Apr 1961
0.18 miles
5
Melton Waste Co, Broughton Brickworks
Disused brickworks in use as a scrapyard. Retained a horizontal single cylinder steam engine.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 24 Nov 1984
0.19 miles
6
Broughton Brickworks engine
According to Colin Bowden this is a horizontal single cylinder engine by Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd., Lincoln. No.15736. 1891. Installed 2nd-hand. Derelict (1973). REMOVED 1996? by a private collector as the site was to be cleared.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 24 Nov 1984
0.19 miles
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Melton Waste Company, Broughton Brickworks
Derelict brickworks in use as a scrapyard. When we were there the ground showed surveyor's marks for redevelopment and it is now an housing estate. The flooded claypit is now a large "water feature". The stationary steam engine was removed for preservation elsewhere.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 19 Nov 1994
0.19 miles
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Steam engine, Broughton Brickworks
Seen in earlier monochrome illustration. Built 1891 by Ruston Proctor of Lincoln and fitted with Meyer expansion slide valves, Porter type throttle governor and four bar crosshead guides. Was long disused but surprisingly complete. Has now been removed for private preservation and the works demolished.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 19 Nov 1994
0.19 miles
9
Broughton Astley Post Office
In Dunton Road
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 31 May 2011
0.20 miles
10
The Red Admiral
A roadside pub on the B581 Dunton Road
Image: © Mike W Hallett
Taken: 2 Aug 2009
0.21 miles