2015
SP3760 : Harbury Cutting seen through scrub by the B4452
taken 10 years ago, near to Harbury, Warwickshire, England
Harbury Cutting seen through scrub by the B4452
Scrub woodland covers a precipitous slope around and above the tunnel mouth. Clearly some construction work is taking place on the embankment but it cannot be easily seen. Several machines were dealing with a landslip that occurred about 3pm on 31 January 2015, causing the railway to be closed.
Harbury Cutting
Interim information, subject to revision
The deep, curving cutting, about 2·5km long, has the 73 yard Harbury Tunnel at its heart. It was built for the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway to broad gauge proportions between 1847 and 1852, reportedly by I.K.Brunel. Originally it was intended to build a longer tunnel, but unstable ground resulted in a cutting 110 feet deep being constructed instead – the deepest man-made cutting in the world at the time. The cutting itself was widened around 1884 because of soil slippage – a problem that has not been entirely solved to this day. Information taken from the Warwickshire Railways website: Link
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- Grid Square
- SP3760, 54 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Robin Stott (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 1 February, 2015 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 1 February, 2015
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SP 3774 6029 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.3707N 1:26.9243W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SP 3782 6028
- View Direction
- WEST (about 270 degrees)
