IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Simpson Road, MILTON KEYNES, MK2 2DE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Simpson Road, MK2 2DE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (99 Images Found)
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Fenny Stratford signalbox and station, 1991
View westward, towards Bletchley: ex-LNWR (Oxford) - Bletchley - Bedford - (Cambridge) line. This is the surviving section, between Bletchley and Bedford, of the formerly - and still potentially - important 'Varsity Line', which survived the 'Beeching Axe', the rest being closed 1/1/68. Although there were modern road barriers at this Simpson Road level-crossing, in 1991 they may still have been controlled from the signalbox, but the latter was since removed when the signalling was modernised. The single-platform 'station' seen ahead remains in use, albeit unstaffed, even though it is only a mile away from Bletchley station.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 18 Aug 1991
0.03 miles
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Fenny Stratford level crossing
A Class 230 Vivarail D-Train approaches Fenny Stratford Station on the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley.
Image: © Mark Percy
Taken: 9 Oct 2021
0.03 miles
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The Chequers, High Street North, Fenny Stratford
Image: © Cameraman
Taken: 23 Aug 2009
0.04 miles
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High Street North, Fenny Stratford
The public house far right is the Swan Hotel and it stands on the junction with Simpson Road.
Image: © Cameraman
Taken: 23 Aug 2009
0.04 miles
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Level crossing in Simpson Road
Gates closed, waiting for the train.
Image: © Cameraman
Taken: 13 Nov 2009
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The Chequers Pub, Fenny Stratford
Watling Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 2BY close to the Grand Union Canal
Image: © canalandriversidepubs co uk
Taken: Unknown
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The Chequers, High Street North, Fenny Stratford
Image: © Cameraman
Taken: 23 Aug 2009
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The level crossing by Fenny Stratford station
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 23 May 2010
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Fenny Stratford: Simpson Road level crossing
The single track Bedford to Bletchley railway crosses Simpson Road here, just to the east of Fenny Stratford station. The level crossing was the scene of a terrible accident that happened during the evening of 7 December 1925 when a full 14-seater motor coach conveying a party of Wesleyan church worshippers back to Woburn Sands from Bletchley ran into and crashed through the level crossing gates that were closed for a train to pass by, and was immediately struck by the train, on the passenger service from Bedford to Bletchley. Six coach passengers died at the scene, two more and one of the coach drivers died later in hospital. Fortunately the train was slowing down to stop at the station and nobody on the train was badly injured.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 1 May 2010
0.05 miles