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Midland Main Line crosses the Erewash Canal
Image: © Tim Glover
Taken: 27 May 1997
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Railway bridge over the Erewash Canal, Sawley (2)
Built in 1840 for the Midland Counties (later Midland) Railway, an early example of a skew bridge, Listed Grade II.
This span over the Erewash Canal is not original, although the stone abutments are. Originally the bridge comprised cast iron arch ribs. These were replaced in the 1905 by the current steel plate girders, The lattice girder was added some years earlier when a footway was added to the south side of the bridge, but is now purely decorative. See the listing description https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1417992 for very comprehensive information about the bridge, and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5643525 for the east span.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 1 Jan 2018
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Entrance to marina, Erewash Canal
Part of the bridge carrying the Midland Counties Railway can be seen
Image: © Tim Glover
Taken: 17 Jan 1999
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Railway bridge crossing the Erewash Canal
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
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Canal Near Long Eaton
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 25 Mar 2016
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South on the Erewash Canal from the Fields Farm Road bridge, Long Eaton
On the left is a corner of the Sheet Stores Industrial Estate. In the distance are the cooling towers of the Ratcliffe on Soar power station
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Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 18 Nov 2017
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Railway bridge over the Erewash Canal, Sawley (1)
Built in 1840 for the Midland Counties (later Midland) Railway, an early example of a skew bridge, Listed Grade II.
This arch, crossing a farm track, is more or less original. It was apparently built in stone rather than the Railway's more usual brick at the insistence of the Erewash Canal Company. See the listing description https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1417992 for very comprehensive information about the bridge, and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5643529 for the canal span.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 1 Jan 2018
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Sheet Stores Basin (Wyvern Marine)
The basin started life in 1840 when it was built by the Midland Counties Railway as a transfer point for coal from the Erewash Canal onto the railway for onward transit. By the 1850s the coal traffic had decreased and it was developed as a central manufacturing and storage base for the tarpaulins used on railway trucks, from which the name Sheet Stores evolved. It now provides a small set of moorings and also a boatbuilding yard.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 1 Jan 2018
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Spectacular sunset colours
Reflected in the Erewash Canal.
Image: © David Lally
Taken: 8 Aug 2018
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In the distance canal boats taken from an East Midlands train
Image: © Steve Fareham
Taken: 18 Dec 2012
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