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Bridge #119 takes Apethorn Lane over the former railway line from Godley Junction to Apethorn. The "Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC)" route opened in 1866. Following the electrification of the Woodhead line in 1954 and until 1981 when the through route to Sheffield closed, the main traffic on the line consisted of trains from the Yorkshire coalfield to the Fiddlers Ferry power station. Most of former trackbed is now utilised by the Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Network Route #62 but this section joined the main line from Hyde to Woodley a few hundred yards beyond this point and so is abandoned with access prevented by heavy railings across the front of the bridge. The trail turns right towards the Peak Forest Canal. In the foreground is a Sustran's Milepost.