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Dist:0.3km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.3km<br/>Up incline. The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.3km<br/>National speed limit applies!
©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.3km<br/>This old pump is opposite the old Wesleyan chapel in the main street of Swannington. Mains water did not come to this village until 1938.
©Richard Green
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.4km<br/>Planted forest, hopefully will be a little larger in a few years time.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.5km<br/>Part of the line near 'the sidings'.The incline is sited behind me.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking east along the public footpath, which heads through long grass to the yellow post on the other side of the field. The tree-line is the old railway track to Calcutta Pit, which is just off picture to the left.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.5km<br/>The view up the former Swannington incline, with Church Lane bridge in the foreground. The single track cable operated incline rose at a gradient of 1 in 17, and closed in 1947.
©Richard Green

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