Spurn
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Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuar
Spurn in February 2017, showing the lighthouse and sand-dunes.
Spurn lighthouse
Settlement on Spurn Head c. 1904.
Settlement on Spurn Head in 2009
Spurn Point military railway
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The Spurn Point military railway was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It extended for 3+3⁄4 miles, connecting Kilnsea with Spurn Point in the Humber Estuary. The line was built
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…has partly toppled them onto the beach, revealing the size of the concrete foundations very well. As well as a road, the peninsula also used to have a railway, parts of which can still be seen. Unusual 'sail bogies' were used as well as more conventional light railway equipment. Following a tidal surge in…
The course of the old trackbed looking south.
Spurn Head railway track embedded in concrete near the lighthouse in 2017, 66 years after closure