2020
TL2953 : Cooper Gate House
taken 4 years ago, near to Longstowe, Cambridgeshire, England
Cooper Gate House
Now a private residence but built as a crossing-keeper's cottage where the Cambridge branch of the London & North-Western Railway crossed Hayley Lane (seen in the immediate foreground and then a busy local thoroughfare). The line (which ran to the right of the house) opened in 1863 and was in operation for just over a century, with the last passenger trains east of Bedford running in 1967. There are plans to reopen the route but it will follow a different course through Cambridgeshire.
For a winter view showing more detail of the house see John Sutton's
TL2953 : Cooper Gate House.
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