Listed Building: WALLS OF RAILWAY CUTTING EXTENDING FROM APPROXIMATLEY 35 YARDS NORTH OF LONG ROW TO FIELD LANE BRIDGE AND FROM APPROXIMATLEY 45 YARDS NORTH OF KING STREET TO NEW ROAD BRIDGE (1335676)

This part of the North Midland Railway surveyed by George Stephenson. Some evidence of Francis Thompson's involvement in design of cutting walls and bridges. Fine embankment walls of rusticated stone, concave cross section with band carried round from bridges and internal buttresses. The railway was constructed in a mile long cutting through the town centre in order to provide minimum disturbance to the established street pattern.