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The A689 crosses the Carlisle to Newcastle line.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Can this be the world's worst football pitch? With the field abandoned to rushes and rough grazing, it looks as if it must have been a few years since football was played here.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from the pedestrian footbridge at Brampton (formerly Milton) station.
©raydar
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was the site of a Y-shaped junction with the still-operating Newcastle-Carlisle railway line coming in on the left and a mineral line from Midgeholme and Lambley coming in from the right (behind the derelict signal box). The mineral line was built for Lord Carlisle's mining interests and subsequently passed to the National Coal Board, eventually closing in 1953.
©David Garnett
Dist:0.6km<br/>Pylon on hill near Birky Brow.
©Peter McDermott
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©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.7km<br/>This station on the Newcastle to Carlisle line was formerly known as Brampton Junction. From here, the Brampton Town Branch led into the town centre. The branch was opened in 1775 as part of the Earl of Carlisle's Waggonway. By 1836, a horse-driven passenger service had been implemented, The line was opened and closed numerous times, before it was finally closed for good in 1923, and the track lifted shortly afterwards. Unlike other towns (Prudhoe, Hexham, Haltwhistle) on the line, Brampton Station lies some 4Km from the town it serves, and consequently only enjoys a very infrequent service.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.7km<br/>Bridge over the railway line at Brampton Station.
©mauldy
Dist:0.7km<br/>The bay platform at Brampton station was the end of the Dandy line to Brampton Town, originally part of Lord Carlisle's Railway and finally closed down by the L.N.E.R. in 1923. The trackbed of the line is now a public footpath.
©David Garnett
Dist:0.7km<br/>This station on the Newcastle to Carlisle line was formerly known as Brampton Junction. From here, the Brampton Town Branch led into the town centre. The branch was opened in 1775 as part of the Earl of Carlisle's Waggonway. By 1836, a horse-driven passenger service had been implemented, The line was opened and closed numerous times, before it was finally closed for good in 1923, and the track lifted shortly afterwards. Unlike other towns (Prudhoe, Hexham, Haltwhistle) on the line, Branpton Station lies some 4Km from the town it serves, and consequently only enjoys a very infrequent service.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.7km<br/>View SW, towards Carlisle; ex-NER Newcastle - Carlisle main line. A 'vintage' DMU is arriving (?passing) on a Carlisle - Newcastle service.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.9km<br/>To the west of the road junction at Low Lonning. The pleasant green landscape is typical of this part of the Irthing valley.
©John Hill
Dist:1.0km<br/>Adjacent to the embankment which carried the old railway line from Brampton Town to Brampton Junction.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:1.0km east<br/>
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:1.1km east<br/>This road forms a useful short cut between the A69 and the A689. The turn to Brackenside is to the right.
©Oliver Dixon

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