2020
SO6606 : Old railway viaduct, Blakeney
taken 4 years ago, near to Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England
Old railway viaduct, Blakeney
The viaduct carried the track of the unsuccessful Forest of Dean Central Railway until 1940. The railway was never a success, being built in the teeth of competition from the Severn & Wye Railway which had built its line first and nicked most of the traffic the FoDCR was built to capture. The arches pictured here were part of a viaduct which carried the line over Clark's Lane, New Road and Blackpool Brook: traffic over the viaduct ceased abruptly with the closure of Howbeach Colliery in 1921, and the track over the viaduct was lifted, probably to aid the war effort, in 1940.
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