File:Loading plant at Middleton Towers Station - geograph.org.uk - 1323753.jpg
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this preview: 494 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 198 × 240 pixels | 527 × 640 pixels.
Original file (527 × 640 pixels, file size: 104 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Loading plant at Middleton Towers Station
Summary
[edit]
| Description |
English: Loading plant at Middleton Towers Station. Middleton Towers used to be a station > 1323748 on a branch line of the GER (Great Eastern) Railway which linked Kings Lynn, Swaffham and Dereham. Originally operated by the Lynn & Dereham Railway, the Eastern Counties Railway leased the Norfolk Railway in 1848 and both lines were absorbed. In 1857 the line between Dereham and Wells opened, and in 1862 the entire line became part of the Great Eastern Railway. Presently this section of the former GER track is used by Sibelco UK, King's Lynn, for transporting silica sand (for glass-making) from WBB Minerals' quarry at Leziate to the Guardian Glass float glass plant at Goole and the line terminates here. An old buffer stop can be glimpsed in the background. The industrial railway is operated by EWS (English Welsh & Scottish Railway), Britain's leading rail freight operator. According to the transport director of WBB Minerals 130,000 tonnes of sand/year are being moved from Leziate to Goole by train and 9,000 lorry movements are kept off the roads by this action. Due to recession, however, trains are running on three days/week only. |
| Date | |
| Source | From geograph.org.uk |
| Author | Evelyn Simak |
| Attribution (required by the license) | Evelyn Simak / Loading plant at Middleton Towers Station / |
| Camera location |   | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap |  |
|---|
_heading:112.00&language=en){kind=link}
| Object location | | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | |
|---|
_heading:112.00&language=en){kind=link}
Licensing
[edit]
|
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Evelyn Simak and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Evelyn Simak
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 21:37, 27 February 2011 | | 527 × 640 (104 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Loading plant at Middleton Towers Station Middleton Towers used to be a station > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1323748 on a branch line of the GER (Great Eastern) Railway which linked Kings Lynn |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
