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A
Here we have the stretch from beyond the Start/Finish
line to the first kink.
This area has been totally remade, the road torn up
and raised.
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B
Here we have the Viaduct. The road here is gone from the second kink
until under the Viaduct itself. |
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The
faded signs of memorys past. Under the Viaduct. |
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C
Here we have the stretch out of the Viaduct, which is
so overgrown it looks like something from The Secret
Garden. |
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D
This section is just after leaving the marshy area
seen in the previous photo heading towards what was
Kings Bridge.
The Tasman cars would have pulled 4th gear around
here.
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E
What was once the foot of Kings Bridge, there is
virtually nothing left of this bridge even the
supports are gone.
However all is not wasted as some of the timber was
used to make the Bar in the Pub up the road.
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E2
Looking backwards across the South Esk River where
Kings Bridge once stood. The faint indentation in the
tree line on the other bank is where the previous
picture was taken from.
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F
Coming into Pub Corner or Longford Corner to use its
correct name.
This area of the circuit has been hugely modified over
the years and bares only scant resemblance to how it
used to be.
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The
Country Club Hotel |
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G
This picture was taken from my Hotel Room and shows
the stretch from Pub to the rail crossing. Again this
area is vastly different, especially after the
crossing where some massive earthworks have reshaped
the road completely not to mention raised it 6 feet or
so.
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H
After the bypass what is left of Tannnery Straight stretches off into
the distance.
The entire roadway here up to Tannery Corner is in
remarkably good shape.
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The
Tannery still stands and is now a private residence. |
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I
The kink on the straight with Tannery Corner in the
background.
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J
Tannery
Corner, the road from here to the river is abandoned
and gets worse & worse the further you go. |
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K
Out of Tannery Corner the stretch to the river.
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L
The kink onto what was Long Bridge. |
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M
The river bank here is so overgrown this was as far as
I could get without getting a photo of nothing but
bushes.
This is quite close to where the bridge proper used to
begin.
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M2
Looking back across the South Esk from the other bank.
This picture shows what was once the line of the
bridge.
Again this area is totally overgrown. |
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N
The stretch up to Newry Corner.
The power sub station you can see has been plonked
square in the middle of the roadway. |
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O
The once challenging Newry Corner has been totally
destroyed and the asphalt ripped up.
You can still however make out the line of the corner
where the gutter used to be, swinging off to the right
in this shot.
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P
Still going uphill this is the series of kinks that
lead onto the Mile. |
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Q
The famous Flying Mile stretches into the distance. |
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The picturesque 'dip' on the Flying Mile |
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R
Mountford Corner once tightly curved around this tree.
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