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    • Glenfield Tunnel showing concrete reinforcements added in 2007/8.

    • Drury, Keith
    • Glenfield Tunnel: concrete strips reinforce the original 1830 brickwork of this tunnel designed by Robert Stephenson for the Leicester & Swannington Railway. The tunnel runs for a dead-straight mile from the New Parks area of Leicester to...
    • Railway tunnel
    • Railway lifting bridge on Soar Lane, 1965

    • Calow, Dennis;
    • View of the railway lifting bridge over the Soar Navigation at West Bridge in Leicester. The bridge can now be seen at Snibston Discovery park.
    • Housing; Abandoned buildings; City planning; Railway bridges;
    • Glenfield Tunnel during reinforcement project 2007-8

    • Bickerdike, Graeme
    • Glenfield Tunnel: concrete strips reinforce the original 1830 brickwork of this tunnel designed by Robert Stephenson for the Leicester & Swannington Railway. The tunnel runs for a dead-straight mile from the New Parks area of Leicester to...
    • Railway tunnel
    • Glenfield Tunnel Air Shaft

    • Drury, Keith
    • Glenfield Tunnel: stack of Air Shaft 10 at 7 Kemp Road, Leicester, seen before refurbishment 2008
    • Railway tunnel
    • Swannington Incline, Swannington

    • Drury, Keith
    • Swannington Incline, Swannington: looking S up the Incline, which was used 1832-1877 to haul coal from the Swannington pits and Coleorton Railway up to the level of the Leicester & Swannington (later Midland) Railway, for transportation to...
    • Railway tracks
    • Glenfield Tunnel during reinforcement project 2007-8

    • Bickerdike, Graeme
    • Glenfield Tunnel: concrete strips reinforce the original 1830 brickwork of this tunnel designed by Robert Stephenson for the Leicester & Swannington Railway. The tunnel runs for a dead-straight mile from the New Parks area of Leicester to...
    • Railway tunnel
    • Glenfield Tunnel showing wall blocking eastern portal

    • Bickerdike, Graeme
    • Glenfield Tunnel: the eastern end of this tunnel designed by Robert Stephenson for the Leicester & Swannington Railway has been blocked off and the cutting beyond infilled. Only an emergency access (a small vertical shaft through the door visble...
    • Railway tunnel

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