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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Warwick Station: gwrw399
Looking towards Leamington with the Grand Union Canal being
carried over the railway via the second bridge. The first bridge is an
occupation bridge which ran from Griffin Road to a farm in fields to the left
of the photographer. The signal seen before the Grand Union canal bridge is
Leamington's up distant. John Fancote writes 'the Bridge in the foreground
was known as Jephson's Farm bridge and is Bridge No 143 on the Didcot to
Chester Line. The Grand Union Canal Aqueduct is Bridge No 142. The trough
carrying the water is cast iron and hidden on both faces by brick arches
carrying towpaths. I remember being called out to the aqueduct in the late 70s
or early 80s, when a severe frost had caused about a foot of ice to form on the
face of the brickwork, threatening to fall on the trains and we had to chip it
off'.
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