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This very steep railway was used to transfer goods between the canal and the river. Photo Roger Smith.
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In 1860 Thomas Savin built a railway line to connect the mines at Coed-y-Go to the Cambrian Railway at Whitehaven. Evidence for the course of this...
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This photograph shows a bridge at Snailbeach lead mines as it looked in 1961. Some of the supports for the bridge are still in place, as are the i...
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This view of Bridgnorth shows some of its best known features. In the front of this picture you can see the Railway Station, which is now the home ...
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This view of Bridgnorth shows the railway in the foreground which came to the town in 1862. On top of the hill you can see the remains of Bridgnort...
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These plans were drawn up in 1891 by G.Croydon Marks a construction engineer from Birmingham.
The townsfolk of Bridgnorth had requested a lift bet...
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The cliff railway was built in 1892 to connect Bridgnorth's Low Town and the bridge to the High Town and Castle Walk. Today it is the last survivi...
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A public meeting was held in 1890 to discuss alternative ways of connecting Low and High town in Bridgnorth, that did not involve scaling 200 steps...
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When the cliff railway was complete the length of the track spanned 201 feet, rising 111 feet at an angle of 33 degrees. This made it the steepest...
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The railway linking Bridgnorth's High and Low town opened on 7th July 1892. It was a huge success with 500,000 people travelling on the railway bet...
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This bridge was built over the Nant-y-Caws stream at Brook House. Of particular interest is the height of the bridge. This was required to accomm...
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Buildwas became an important junction after the opening of the Severn Valley line in the mid 1800's. It formed the junction of the Severn Valley, W...
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