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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Cross Country Route (redirect from Bristol-Birmingham-Derby Line)
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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Severn Bridge Railway (section Sharpness docks)
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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