The following small selection of photographs focuses on the Southwell Trail’s past life as a railway line connecting Southwell to Mansfield. Passenger trains stopped running in the 1920s but the line was maintained for goods services until the 1960’s. More information about the trail and the railway can be found in this leaflet produced by Nottinghamshire Council:
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/1528400/southwell-trails-booklet.pdf
The photographs below show the old Edingley and Kirklington Station house, one of the bridges over the trail, the old height gauge which stands in the picnic area near to the station:
These days the trail is tree lined and used by walkers and cyclists but it retains a straight, often tunnel-like appearance:
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