YOU MISSED THE LAST TRAIN
Actually you missed it by over 40
years, because it was that long ago that Beeching axed a huge chunk of
Britain’s railway system.
The blueprint, drawn up in 1963
by the chairman of the British Railways Board, Dr Richard
Beeching, shut down almost a third of
the railway system. Five thousand miles of track and 2,000 stations
were closed.
The idea was to put the railways
on a sound financial footing by abandoning hundreds of loss making
branch lines and concentrating on more profitable
InterCity routes
instead.
Nowadays we are left with some of
the remnants of that bygone age and this cache is located on one of
the sections of railway line axed by Beeching in the sixties. The rails have long since
been removed leaving what is now called a ‘Greenway’ used for
walking, cycling and horse riding. To locate the exact position of
this cache you will need to examine a couple of the relics from the
railway
Firstly take a look at the
gradient sign located at N52
23.015 W001 36.785 and use the figures reading from left to
right (A) in
(B)zero and (C) in (D)zero(E) then take a look under
the bridge at N52 22.887
W001 36.483 there you will find some figures written in
yellow paint (F)m
(G)(H)c Now use the
numbers represented by the letters A to H to work out the co
ordinates for the cache.
N52
22.(B-1)
(Dx2) (E+G) W001 36. (A+C+E) (H)
(F-2)
The cache is a small food
container and originally contains
: Kansas
Sunshine-wykenwizard Quest trackable geo coin, Notebook and pencil, Smiley
Face shopping trolley token, West Midlands Police Handcuffs Key
Ring, Coventry City Council Key Fob. The first to find will
probably like to take and keep as a souvenir a wykenwizard designed Cornwall geo coin No180, featuring King Arthur and Merlin
the Magician. For those who don’t get there quick enough to claim
the coin they can be purchased in the UK at
www.ukgeocachers.co.uk
There is parking for one car at
the start of a public footpath N52 23.337 W001 36.887 If you do
decide to start here, be aware that you will have to negotiate a
steep bank to get down onto the ‘Greenway’. There are shorter
routes to the gradient sign, bridge and the final cache, but
finding those is all part of the challenge.
Good Luck