page_title: Welsh Bicknor
section_title: Former Ross and Monmouth Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Welsh Bicknor / Former Ross and Monmouth Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Disused railway line in Park Wood, Welsh Bicknor Photo is taken from the bricked-in railway tunnel on the old Severn-Wye line near Welsh Bicknor. The picture looks south along the line of the original track towards the bridge over the river Wye. The bridge is now for pedestrians only and forms part of the Wye Valley Walk. A WW2 pillbox to the left of the track guards the then railway bridge. Vertical rails found at both ends of the bridge are likely to be part of anti-tank defences hindering access for attacking forces to the bridge.
context_page_description: Welsh Bicknor is an area in the far south of the English county of Herefordshire. Despite its name, it is not now in Wales, but it was historically a detached parish of the county of Monmouthshire. It lies within a loop of the River Wye and covers 8,502 acres.
context_section_description: The Ross and Monmouth Railway served the area from Kerne Bridge station across the River Wye.  The line passed through with no intermediate station under Coppet Hill using the tunnel, with railway bridges across the Wye to Kerne Bridge in the Ross-on-Wye direction, and Lydbrook Junction in the Monmouth direction.
caption: The former Ross and Monmouth Railway trackbed in Welsh Bicknor
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