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The Geology of Roade Cutting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Beeby Thompson
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Roade cutting was considered to be one of the great works in the construction of the original London and Birmingham Railway (afterwards the London and North-Western Railway) between 1833 and 1838, being about 1½ mile in length, of considerable average depth, a good part of which consisted of hard rock—the Great Oolite Limestone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 5 , May 1924 , pp. 210 - 218
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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page 210 note 1 The bridges are here numbered 1 to 6 from north to south to facilitate references. See diagram, Plate X.

page 215 note 1 In April, 1892, Mr. George Smith, of Roade, took me to see these Cornbrash blocks near to bridge 5. He said that when the railway was being made fifty to fifty-five years before, Mr. Rawlinson (afterwards Sir Robert Rawlinson) lived at Roade and often used to take geologists to get fossils and see “the large blocks of stone brought by ice”.

page 216 note 1 See Report of Excursion to Northamptonshire in 1891, Proceedings of Geologists' Assoc., vol. xii, pp. 177–8.Google Scholar

page 216 note 2 Palaeontologia Indica, N.S., vol. iii, Memoir 2, Brachiopoda, by S. S. Buckman, F.G.S.Google Scholar

page 216 note 3 Ardley Section, see “The Bathonian Rocks of the Oxford District”, by M. Odling, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S.: Q. J. Geol. Soc., vol. lix, 1913, p. 484.Google Scholar