World's biggest free geocaching network
Geopaths - matching lots of geocaches
Full statistics, GPX's, all for free!
Mail notifications about new caches and logs
100% geocaching posibilities for free
Musisz być zalogowany, by wpisywać się do logu i dokonywać operacji na skrzynce.
stats
Zobacz statystykę skrzynki
Great Northern No.4 - Awsworth Station - OK0224
A visit to an old railway station
Właściciel: O2J
Zaloguj się, by zobaczyć współrzędne.
Wysokość: 81 m n.p.m.
 Województwo: Wielka Brytania > Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Typ skrzynki: Wirtualna
Wielkość: Bez pojemnika
Status: Gotowa do szukania
Czas: 0:10 h    Długość trasy: b.d.
Data ukrycia: 30-04-2011
Data utworzenia: 30-04-2011
Data opublikowania: 30-04-2011
Ostatnio zmodyfikowano: 08-05-2011
1x znaleziona
0x nieznaleziona
0 komentarze
watchers 0 obserwatorów
4 odwiedzających
1 x oceniona
Oceniona jako: b.d.
Musisz się zalogować,
aby zobaczyć współrzędne oraz
mapę lokalizacji skrzynki
Atrybuty skrzynki

Around the clock  Listed on Opencaching only  All year round Access  Potrzebne hasło do logu! 

Zapoznaj się z opisem atrybutów OC.
Opis EN

This cache requires a password to log your find.  Please follow the instructions in to obtain the password.

The coordinates take you to what was the level crossing across the tracks at Awsworth Station on the Great Northern Railway's Extension to Derby opened in 1876 and closed in the Beeching era.

If you stand at the coordinates, you will see the blue brick station house across the 'tracks' and the old wooden gate on the other side of the crossing.

If you stand roughly in the middle of the 'crossing' you can see the path follows the embankment along the left side of the football pitch.  This is where the station platforms stood with the trackbed following the line through the hawthorne at the end of the field. The line then crossed a small access track, the Nottingham Canal and was then carried across the Erewash river flood plains on the lightweight wrought iron viaduct.  This is still in place and is quite a sight so worth a visit if you have the time.

See our other local OC only virtual cache http://www.opencaching.org.uk/viewcache.php?cacheid=560 at the viaduct.

The Awsworth bypass now intersects the route but paths drop you down, across the road and canal (by the kennels)and you can pick up the trail to Bennerley Viaduct if you used the well worn paths across the SSSI site of the old ironworks.


At the coordinates given, there is no box but a board with the answer to this question:

What are there 7 of on the raised circle?

The answer (including the pluralising 's') is the password to log this cache.

Happy Caching!

 

Wpisy do logu: znaleziona 1x nieznaleziona 0x komentarz 0x Wszystkie wpisy