IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Gipsy Lane, SWINDON, SN2 8DL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Gipsy Lane, SN2 8DL 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 (53 Images Found)
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Weighbridge, EMR scrap yard, Gipsy Lane
The lorry is just about to drive on to the weighbridge at the European Metal Recycling (EMR) scrap yard at Gipsy Lane.
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 8 Feb 2012
0.04 miles
2
EMR scrap metal yard, Gipsy Lane
European Metal Recycling (EMR) yard seen from the hump-backed bridge linking Gipsy Lane and Bridge End Road.
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 8 Feb 2012
0.05 miles
4
Gipsy Lane, Swindon
I have never understood how this small terrace of houses came to survive. They are cheek by jowl with the former gas works, now a mix of modern commercial development and the gas holders that now store natural gas. The nearest house is decorated for the Yuletide season although there are some Christian references.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 8 Dec 2007
0.06 miles
5
EMR Swindon scrap metal yard
One of the giant machines has grabbed a car and is about to place it in the crusher on the left. Remains of a previous vehicles are seen spilling out onto the floor beneath.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 5 Jan 2023
0.06 miles
6
EMR Swindon scrap metal yard
The yard is busy, with machines moving and sorting piles of scrap metal.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 5 Jan 2023
0.07 miles
8
Gipsy Lane bridge of the former Highworth Branch
The railway was once the branch line to Highworth and also served the Austin Rover/BWM factory at Swindon, but now is reduced to short stub to serve EMR scrap metal yard, which is just beyond the bridge on the left.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 5 Jan 2023
0.07 miles
9
Disused Highworth branch line, Gipsy Lane
The disused Great Western Railways (GWR) Highworth branch line is seen here from the hump-backed bridge joining Gipsy Lane and Bridge End Road. To the left can be seen the Biffa Waste Services depot.
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 8 Feb 2012
0.08 miles
10
West along the Paddington to the west railway, Stratton, Swindon
The line at the right of the various lines was once the point at which The Swindon & Highworth Light Railway left the main line to the small town of Highworth. It was never very successful and was in fact taken over by the Great Western Railway before it ever ran any trains of its own http://www.highworth.freeuk.com/history.htm The rails still exist into the former Rover Group plant (now BMW MINI body plant) as up until certainly the 1990s trains from Rover ran down the line to the Longbridge plant in Birmingham carrying car body panels. The lower part of the line is still in use by the nearby EMR scrap metal company to ship out processed scrap metal. The building just to the right of the line is on the site of a signal box. The viewpoint is the footbridge over the railway from Stratton Road to Gipsy Lane.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 16 Sep 2014
0.09 miles