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Concrete blocks recessed to take steel rails to prevent crossing of rail bridge over the River Trent.
(Source: Field Visit )


      

        Type of site
        RAILBLOCK
      

      

        Location
        Kings Newton, Melbourn. On Midland Railway: Derby to Ashby line. South side of bridge where railway crosses River Trent.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Melbourne, Derbyshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SK 3985 2748
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1978)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Unknown

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Other (Immediate) 
Detail: Railway line has been decommissioned and cleared to make cycle and foot path, concrete blocks have been moved to the side of path.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Usher, Howard
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) photocopy of a photograph of the site location. Difficult to make out the features.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000178

      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 Anti-invasion defences of WWII

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, Before 1996/10/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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