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DerekC

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I have struggled a bit here - how to get from the Great Central Main Line to the North Midland. Killamarsh Junctions seem to be the only possibility - so ...

Killamarsh West
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:

Would another option have been to have carried on along the Great Central Railway Main Line from Killamarsh Central on to Beighton, then reversed down the North Midland Railway to Killamarsh West?
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I think that would have been more accurate. The junctions here were very complicated and changed a lot between about 1896 and 1910.

Xenophon PCDGS said:
You chose well....

Eckington and Renishaw
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Barrow Hill
 
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We next move to Wales for the next journey.....

This is number 737 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Moss Halt
It follows the line of the GWR Moss Valley Branch Line
It then follows the line of the GWR Chester to Shrewsbury Line
It then follows the line of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
It then follows the line of the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway
It then follows the line of the Wolverhampton, Walsall and Midland Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the MR Birmingham to Syston Line...note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the Syston and Peterborough Railway
It then follows the line of the MR Oakham to Kettering Line
It then follows the line of the Midland Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the MR Bedford to Northampton Line
The journey ends at the closed station of Northampton St John's Street

The first closed station on this journey is Moss Halt
 
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