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SP2599 : Side of old railway embankment, Birch Coppice

near to Wood End, Warwickshire, Great Britain

Side of old railway embankment, Birch Coppice

Riddled with burrows and densely colonised by scrub, the old trackbed is perfectly walkable although not a public footpath. The line was a branch of the Midland Railway from Kingsbury to Baddesley Colliery at Baxterley. It opened in 1878, may also have served the Birch Coppice mine, and may have been intended to replace or augment the tramway from Baddesley Colliery to the West Coast main line north of Atherstone. Link

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2011

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Grid Square: SP2599, 13 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Robin Stott (find more nearby)
Image classification^?: Geograph
Date Taken: Sunday, 14 August, 2011 (more nearby)
Submitted: Sunday, 21 August, 2011
Geographical Context: Scrub Lowlands Quarrying, Mining Railways Derelict, Disused
Subject Location: OSGB36: SP 2521 9904 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:35.3150N 1:37.7593W
Photographer Location: OSGB36: SP 2527 9904
View Direction: WEST (about 270 degrees)