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    Mar 02, 2020 3 minutes

    Shallowest gradient

    IN RESPECT of the letter about shallowest gradients (RM Feb), a contender could be the ‘summit’ located on the ex-LSWR main line east of Farnborough, near Sturt Lane, with a rising gradient of 1-in-14400 from the Frimley Green direction to a descending gradient of 1-in-3414 towards Farnborough Main.

    I believe it was once listed in the Guinness World Records as the most obtuse railway summit, and I took this photo in the early 1990s when I

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