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Looking west, the track here was laid in 1959 and alongside lies the new continuously welded rail (made at Scunthorpe steelworks) together with some ballast that came by rail from Cliffe Quarry in Leicestershire, via Westbury; one of the last remaining Freight and Engineering train marshalling yards on the former BR WR. Lineside generators power the temporary electric lighting erected along the line for several miles for night working.
 
Taken on 15/04/2021 by Tony Hill