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The Border Counties Railway across moorland beyond Kielder on a low embankment, en route to Riccarton Junction.
Sept 2008
On this day in 1896, 129 years ago, the first passenger train broke the skyline on Fledborough Viaduct, a half-mile long structure crossing the flood plain of the River Trent with 59 brick arches and four girder spans over the river.
Sept 2008Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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