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I.—Geology of the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. Part I: Annesley to Rugby

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This portion of the new trunk line to London covers a distance of about fifty miles, and runs nearly due south, crossing the towns of Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Lutterworth, and Rugby. Throughout the greater part of this distance the railwayis on the Trias, except the northern portion, which is On thePermian, and the southern, which is on the Lias. There are also great thicknesses of Drift met with near Leicester and between that town and Rugby, but very little in the northern part on either side of Nottingham.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , February 1897 , pp. 49 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1897

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page 49 note 1 I am greatly indebted to Mr. Edward Parry and the resident engineers of the different sections of the line for much information as to the nature and thickness of the strata met with in the excavations for bridges and other structures, which were covered up before the time of my visit.

page 51 note 1 Coke, G. E.: Trans. Fed. Inst. Mining Eng. 1896; Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xiv, p. 430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 51 note 2 Mr. Montagu Browne gives a short but detailed account of this section – Report of the Brit. Assoc. for 1895.

page 52 note 1 From information supplied by the resident engineer, Mr. F. D. Sharp.

page 54 note 1 A short account of the rocks near here is given by Mr. Watts, W. W.: Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc., vol. iv, p. 12, 1895;Google Scholar and Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xiv, p. 432.Google Scholar

page 54 note 2 At this spot some supposed British remains have been found by MrTucker, W. T., who gives a beautifully illustrated account of them in the Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc., vol. iv. p. 212, 1896.Google Scholar

page 54 note 3 Mr. Montagu Browne, F.G.S., has some fine photographs of these gravels.

page 58 note 1 This is only about a mile from Brownsover, where something of the same character was met with by MrWilson, J. M..—Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxi, p. 355.Google Scholar

page 58 note 2 From information supplied by Mr. A. W. H. Carson, the resident engineer.