2020
SO6610 : Crossing keeper's cottage, Soudley
taken 4 years ago, near to Upper Soudley, Gloucestershire, England
Crossing keeper's cottage, Soudley
The cottage once occupied by the chap who looked after the level crossing which took the Forest of Dean Railway over Tramway Road at Soudley ("Soudley No.2 Crossing", in railway speak, No.1 being at the other end of the tunnel). The cottage was provided by the GWR in 1894. The route of the railway is now largely obscured by the new garage in the left foreground, but the western portal of Bradley Hill tunnel can be made out above the roof. The tunnel was built in the 1850s when the Bullo Pill tramway was converted to a "proper" railway; previously the tramroad had skirted Bradley Hill on what is now the Blakeney - Cinderford road. The GWR, incidentally, caused much local irritation when they took over the line by referring to Soudley as "Sewdley".
This is another one which was taken to match a railway-era photograph by Ben Ashworth, although the picturesque location meant that any number of railway photographers were drawn to this very spot.
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