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    The Sharpness branch line is a railway in Gloucestershire, England, built by the Midland Railway (MR) to connect the port of Sharpness to the main Bristol...
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    Berkeley. Sharpness docks began as a basin giving access to the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. There were no port facilities at Sharpness itself and...
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    uses parts of the South Wales Main Line, Midland Main Line, Swinton–Doncaster line, and the East Coast Main Line. Major cities and towns served along...
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  • Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed...
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    station was on the Sharpness Branch Line, part of the Midland Railway (MR), which connected the Bristol and Gloucester Railway main line at Berkeley Road...
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    2010. The Vale of Berkeley Railway is a heritage line, with hopes to reopen the Sharpness branch line. "Vale of Berkeley, Stroud". OS GetOutside. Ordnance...
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  • docks at Sharpness. The Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Company started operation at Sharpness in 1874. The branch line was opened...
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  • Beaver Line may refer to: Beaver Line (railway), see Sharpness Branch Line Beaver Line (shipping), a Canadian shipping line of the Canada Shipping Company...
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    Augustine's Reach (also known as St Augustine's Trench), an artificial branch of the docks constructed through marshland belonging to St Augustine's Abbey...
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    from Lydney to Sharpness in Gloucestershire, England. It was intended chiefly to give access for minerals in the Forest of Dean to Sharpness Docks, and the...
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    station had two short platforms on the main line with a very short and sharply curved platform on the branch. Goods facilities were limited, but included...
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    park. In 1896 a new through station was constructed on the Tuffley Loop line on a site that had previously housed the Midland Railway engine shed. The...
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    Junction Railway branch from Coaley Junction. In 1875, a branch line from Berkeley Road station was built to the new docks at Sharpness, passing around...
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    with branch lines to Lydbrook, where it connected with the Ross & Monmouth Railway, and Coleford, where it linked to the Wye Valley Railway via a line known...
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    Severn with Sharpness Docks on the south bank via the Severn Railway Bridge. The railway joined up at Sharpness with the Sharpness Branch Line which had...
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    Swindon before the opening of a new flyover The Golden Valley Line – a railway line serving a similar route List of crossings of the River Thames "Directions...
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    major restoration. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal connects the Severn at Gloucester to the Severn at Sharpness, avoiding a stretch of the tidal river...
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    The Cotswold Line is an 86+1⁄2-mile (139.2 km) railway line between Oxford and Hereford in England. The line between Oxford and Worcester was built under...
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    Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, the line opened between Swindon and Kemble (with a branch to Cirencester) in 1841; it took an additional four...
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    at the northern junction of the River Severn with the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. They are Britain's most inland port. The docks include fifteen...
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    part of the otherwise-dismantled Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath branch line, which was closed in 1966 as a result of the Beeching cuts, due mainly...
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    Cirencester branch line was a five-mile-long single-track branch railway line in Gloucestershire, England that connected Cirencester to the main line at Kemble...
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    A. J. Wade (2014). "Map of the river Thames watershed showing the main branch of the Thames, underlying geology and boundaries for the 8 subcatchments...
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    northeast) and Tetbury (southwest). Both the Tetbury branch line and the Cirencester Branch Line were closed to traffic under The Reshaping of British...
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    at Bentley, West Midlands. The Monarch's Way picks up the closed Anson Branch Canal. This section of the Monarch's Way follows the canal system through...
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    Aero Collection. The airport has also been used for Formula One straight line testing, and has one of the largest race tracks for radio-controlled cars...
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    Xinbeitou branch line (formerly transliterated as Hsin Peitou branch line until 2003) is an elevated, high-capacity branch line of the Tamsui–Xinyi line. It...
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    for the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway's branch line to Nailsworth, which later had a small branch line of its own to Stroud. Unusually, the junction...
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    Derventio to the east which led to Sawley on the River Trent, Icknield Street branching from this to the North East. The course is well marked beyond Breadsall...
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    Severn Estuary and Severn bridges, the meanders of the River Severn above Sharpness, the Forest of Dean, the Welsh hills of Monmouthshire and the Black Mountains...
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