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Colwicks Tin Bridge Traditional Cache

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LesAnneGeo: Been told it has gone again. Will check.

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Hidden : 2/21/2025
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This is a picture of 30 steps leafding up to the  green box bridge which turns left to cross the line.  Then straight ahead to go down on the far side. The side walls are in blue engineering brick with a half circular coping stone. Total height about two metres. As is the bridge itself.

 

 

I live near this bridge and I heard the story so I thought it should be the subject for my first cache.

The cache is on the path to the Tin Bridge which passes the school so school run times are not a good idea for searching.

The following was taken from Hansard.

HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1907 → July 1907 → 30 July 1907 → Commons Sitting → QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CIRCULATED WITH THE VOTES.

Dangerous Level Crossing at Colwick, Nottinghamshire.

HC Deb 30 July 1907 vol 179 cc744-5

MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)

To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the death of a school girl who was run over by a train at what is known as Saville's Crossing on the Midland and  Great Northern Railways at Colwick, Nottinghamshire, on Tuesday, 16th July; and whether, having regard to the numerous fatalities at this place during recent years, to the increase in the adjacent population and the large and increasing number of trains which pass, he will suggest to the railway companies concerned the desirability of replacing the level crossing by a bridge.

(Answered by Mr. Kearley.) The accident in question occurred on the lines of the Great Northern Railway Company, and the company have, as my right hon. friend informed the hon. Member for South Nottingham yesterday, decided to erect a footbridge at the crossing.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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