The Strangest Crossing on Britain’s Busiest Railway
Автор: Our History Underfoot
Загружено: 2026-03-05
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Britain's LAST Standard Gauge flat railway crossing — Newark Flat Crossing - where two mainlines collide at 44° and nobody can fix it.
The Newark Flat Crossing is the only remaining place on the UK's Network Rail where two standard-gauge railway lines cross at grade — no bridge, no tunnel, just steel on steel. The East Coast Main Line meets the Nottingham–Lincoln line at a 44-degree angle in an arrangement that's been here since 1852.
So why hasn't it been replaced? Despite decades of proposals, the local geography — the River Trent, the A46 viaduct — makes a grade-separated junction almost impossible to build. This is the story of Britain's most stubborn piece of railway infrastructure.
Thumbnail image by Brian Robertson
📍 Newark Northgate Station, Nottinghamshire
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