stensons lock

The ‘Iron Giant’ opens for walkers and cyclists

by

Colin Wareing

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March 4, 2022

MANY boaters who have travelled the Erewash Canal will have been unable to miss the old railway iron viaduct that crosses the Erewash River valley just above Stenson’s Lock. Known affectionately as the ‘Iron Giant’, the Bennerley viaduct was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1877 carrying trains until the line was closed in…
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