Disused Railway Lines: HCVR - Road Bridge Traditional Cache
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Disused Railway Lines: HCVR - Road Bridge
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Mrs Bear has always loved to look up the history of and to walk along the disused railway lines of the UK, in particular Essex. We hope that this could become a series of caches located at some of the interesting structures that used to form part of these railway lines.
This cache is a small tupperware container, with rooms for small swaps or trackables. Please bring a scribbler.
The Halstead and Colne Valley railway ran between Chappel and Wakes Colne station and Haverhill. It was opened in stages between April 1860 and May 1863. The section that this bridge crosses was opened in July 1861 and is between the stations of Halstead and Sible and Castle Hedingham. There is still a live steam railway museum just up the road at Sible Hedingham. The line was closed to passengers in 1961 and closed to freight in 1965. The line was eventually taken up in 1966.
The route of the Halstead and Colne Valley Railway is shown below.
The public footpaths around here tend to cross the disused railway, although you can walk along some sections, particularly to the north of Halstead. The cache is situated on a road bridge over the old line - you do not need to go under the bridge - unfortunately the public footpath does not run along the disused line here.
We parked in a small lay-by, at the parking waypoint to the north of the bridge and walked down to the cache site - a walk of about 250 metres. The road/track is very narrow along here and you should be very careful, although we didn't see any other vehicles when placing the cache. We hope that you enjoy this cache and do as we did and try to imagine what it must have been like to stand at the cache location and watch a steam engine thundering along below you.
Happy caching
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