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The beginning of rural London
©David Howard
A comprehensive school and 6th form college on Pursley Road.
©Martin Addison
©David Howard
Dist:0.1km<br/>Buses on the 221 route stop simultaneously for passengers on Pursley Road, outside Copthall School. As chance would have it they are consecutive vehicles, VLW27 and VLW28, Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL's. VLW27 carries ex-Routemaster registration VLT 27. A pair of learner motorcyclists with an instructor are passing with care. Note the doubling of the street lights. This seems to have been done along much of the route from Page Street to Holders Hill Circus.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.1km<br/>Seen here at the junction with Pursley Road, at the nearest roundabout. The far roundabout is the junction with Bunns Lane. The brown sign indicates the way to Copthall Stadium and golf centre.
©Martin Addison
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©David Howard
Dist:0.3km<br/>A mix of terrace and semi-detached housing by the junction with Featherstone Road. The red 30MPH LED sign might as well be permanently on - nearly every approaching car made it light up.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km<br/>Roadworks hold up the traffic on this busy street.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Page Street end of the route. Barriers have been installed to discourage the joyriding of motorcycles. Beyond, is a subway under the road rather than the bridge that must have existed in the past. Older maps show the railway as being in a cutting at this point, so a certain amount of landfill seems to have taken place. Beyond Page Street the route of the railway has disappeared under a housing estate.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>Sealed off subway under Page Street. This is on the route of the line from Mill Hill East to Edgware but it certainly isn't the original bridge that the railway passed under. Presumably built when the housing estate on the opposite side of the road was built, I suspect that the roof of this structure has become dangerous. The cracked brickwork at the top of the arch hints as much.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>5-a-side football venue beside Pursley Road.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>The dismantled railway. Note the concrete posts on the left which would have carried the cables had the proposed electrification of the line not been abandoned with the outbreak of World War II. In the distance the junction with the footpath to Barnet Copthall Leisure Centre can be seen.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>A shared pedestrian and cycle path near Mill Hill in North London.
©Malc McDonald
Dist:0.4km<br/>This footpath that now occupies the land that used to follow a railway extension between Mill Hill East and Edgware. It was proposed to electrify this line and incorporate it as part of the Northern line - evidence of this remains and can be seen in the form of traction power cable posts. Work started on this but was interrupted by the Second World War and never completed.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.5km<br/>This path was once a railway line. The line was closed to psssengers in 1939, but remained open for freight trains until 1964.
©Malc McDonald

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