2015
SP3760 : Harbury Cutting west of Bull Ring Farm Road bridge
taken 10 years ago, near to Harbury, Warwickshire, England
Harbury Cutting west of Bull Ring Farm Road bridge
Compare Andy F's view from 2009: SP3760 : Looking west from a bridge over Harbury railway cutting. Get a sense of the scale and depth of the cutting in Andy's SP3760 : Down (westbound) 'Voyager' train in Harbury railway cutting.
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 3717 6046 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.4647N 1:27.4240W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SP 3731 6036
- View Direction
- Northwest (about 315 degrees)
