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Dist:0.2km<br/>This large self store facility is situated on the old Stapleford station yard. The blatant advertising is a real blot on the landscape and their vans and trailers can be seen "decorating" countryside lay-bys in the area.
©Kate Jewell
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©Mat Fascione
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©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.4km<br/>Close to the Leicestershire village of Saxby.
©Mat Fascione
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©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.6km<br/>This long-abandoned railway embankment is one with an interesting and sensational history. In the 1840s Lord Harborough did all he could to prevent the building of the Midland Railway line from Leicester (Syston) to Peterborough. Lord Harborough’s men and the Midland’s surveyors engaged in fisticuffs, the surveyors were locked up and then released on the advice of the local policeman, and in further confrontations both the peer and the railway company employed ruffians to fight their corners. Eventually a compromise was reached, and Lord Harborough’s Curve – a deviation whose tightness was later to prove a handicap to high-speed running of the Midland’s Nottingham-Kettering-St Pancras expresses – was opened in 1848 to take the line east of Saxby without damaging Lord Harborough’s view too much. The next Lord Harborough was better disposed towards railways, and Lord Harborough’s Curve was replaced by the present, more generous curve (behind the camera) in 1892, when the Saxby & Bourne Railway – the most westerly part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast – was also built. This spot is called Pile Bridge because the Curve crossed a lane and the River Eye here on a wooden pile bridge - long gone, leaving only the name to perplex future generations.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Saxby Junction (a couple of hundred yards to the left) was where the Saxby & Bourne Railway - the westernmost part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast - joined the Midland line from Leicester (Syston Junction) to Peterborough. The Saxby & Bourne (one pier of whose bridge can be seen through the left-hand arch) closed in 1959 but the Midland's three-arch bridge over the infant River Eye still carries important cross-country traffic.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Saxby Junction (a couple of hundred yards to the right) was where the Saxby & Bourne Railway - the westernmost part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast joined the Midland line from Leicester (Syston Junction) to Peterborough. The Saxby & Bourne closed in 1959 but the Leicester-Peterborough line is still an important cross-country route. The nearer of these two bridges over the infant River Eye is the abandoned S&B one. Behind the camera is the embankment of Lord Harborough's Curve, abandoned as long ago as 1892, described in the captions to some of my pictures in SK8219.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.6km<br/>I wonder if this little bridge was built by the railway contractors in 1892, when the Saxby and Bourne Railway and the new curve on the Leicester to Peterborough line (behind the camera) were built - it is identical in style and material, and very substantial for a farm bridge.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Wrong location, changed image title and location.
©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.6km<br/>Saxby Junction (a couple of hundred yards to the left) was where the Saxby & Bourne Railway - the westernmost part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast joined the Midland line from Leicester (Syston Junction) to Peterborough. The Saxby & Bourne closed in 1959 but the Leicester-Peterborough line is still an important cross-country route. The further of these two three-arch bridges over the infant River Eye and a bridleway is the abandoned S&B one.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking down the street from the Church gate towards the B676. The telephone box, just beyond the red car, marks the spot where the boundary with the next square crosses from east to west. Beautiful old trees on the right and a fine old stone and brick wall bounding the Vicarage garden to the left.
©Kate Jewell
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©Mat Fascione
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©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.7km<br/>Small village on the B676 from Melton to Bourne. The windows of the house featured are always painted a bright colour. Before being red they were blue! Saxby is right in the NW corner of a square with quite a few interesting photo opportunities.
©Kate Jewell

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