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©Jarvis Docherty
©Jarvis Docherty
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>View SE, towards London: WCML. The 13.35 Euston to Perth (due 01.00!) has come out of Northchurch Tunnel and is forging up to Tring, headed by rebuilt 'Royal Scot' No. 46130 (built 11/37 as 'Planet', renamed 'The West Yorkshire Regiment' 1935, rebuilt 12/49, withdrawn 12/62).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>View SE, towards London on the WCML. The 13.10 Euston - Tring stopping train is on the Down Slow, headed by BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T No. 80038 (built 6/52, withdrawn 9/64).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.3km<br/>A pumping station (or pump house) on the Grand Union at Northchurch.
©mick finn
Dist:0.3km<br/>View from New Road Northchurch, looking South West. The London-Glasgow main railway line and the Grand Union Canal are at the bottom of the hill, and the houses of Northchurch cover the slope rising on the other side of the valley.
©Chris Cole
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©David Howard
Dist:0.3km<br/>View NW, towards Bletchley and the North from just north of Northchurch Tunnel: WCML. Normally worked by a Pacific, that day (Cup Final Day) the 'Merseyside Express' (10.00 Liverpool Lime Street (non-stop) to Euston) had Rebuilt 'Royal Scot' 7P 4-6-0 No. 46164 'The Artists' Rifleman' (built 9/30, rebuilt 6/51, withdrawn 12/62).
©Ben Brooksbank
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>This copse is shown on the map as a circle of non-access woodland within an area of access woodland, but there is now no fence around it to separate it from the rest of the common.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.4km<br/>Lock keeper's cottage at Top Lock No. 49, Northchurch.
©mick finn
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©David Howard
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©David Howard
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is where additional canal water supplies are drawn up from a deep borehole in the chalk beds. With so much canal to feed, water supplies were obtained from as many places as possible. The pump house was built in the 1840s.
©Graham Horn

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