Chapter Two
The Old Junctions at Killamarsh As an introduction to one of the mammoth series of mosaic pieces on Flickr, the main part of the 3 showing a series of maps of the area of the Killamarsh Junctions. The maps, taken from old OS maps from 1906, 1923, 1953 and 2004 and in addition, the least contaminated (by vegetation) picture from Google Earth, in 1999; what a pity this couldn't go back to 1950, 1850.. and onwards, where's Dr. Who when you need him... see- the maps for Killamarsh Junctions on the left, from 1906, the map shows what was in place at that time; namely- the Midland line in the centre of the 3 aligned north-south and turning off to Staveley and Barrow Hill at bottom left, the GC 'fly-over' coming in from Sheffield in the north-erst and at bottom, heading south-east to Annesley, the Waleswood connection to the GC curving off to the north-east at centre over to Wales, the goods line from the Midland over to Kiveton co...