2015
SP3760 : Entrance to contractor’s compound off the B4452 north of Harbury Cutting
taken 10 years ago, near to Harbury, Warwickshire, England
Entrance to contractor’s compound off the B4452 north of Harbury Cutting
Murphy, the contractor for Network Rail, must have been here for about a year since the landslip in Harbury Cutting in February 2014. Almost a year later it has happened again, causing the Chiltern line to be closed on 31 January 2015. Site staff politely declined my request to look in and take a photo.
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 3782 6033 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.3919N 1:26.8537W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SP 3785 6032
- View Direction
- West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
