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Page 1 - The Members Banking
Page 2 - Railway Straight
Page 3 - The Byfleet Banking
Page 4 - The Campbell Circuit
Page 5 - The Start/Finish Straight and Test Hill
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THE FASTLANE :: Features :: Brooklands 2004 :: Page 3
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The earlier parts of the Byfleet Banking should be under all those bushes somewhere...It's all enclosed in a company's car park:
This shows just after the above photo and a little further round. You can see the bushes from the other cark park extended up in the air in the background. Some steps have been created that go along those bushes down to a no-through road:
A small square where part of the Byfleet Banking is not covered in weeds and plants, with the overgrown bit seen a little further on:
A little after the 'clean' part of Byfleet Banking, you turn around and see even more weeds and bushes growing on the track, and the part of the banking that Tesco destroyed to allow customers into their site:
A closer look at the gap in the badly-treated part of the Byfleet Banking. Just out of the photo is a sign that says 'No Public Access' I didn't see it until I'd already walked on it:
A look across the road at the rest Byfleet Banking, which is in much better condition than the other section. This photo was taken from sitting at the very top of the steep overgrown banking:
The Tesco ring-road can be seen on the inside of the banking, which looks remarkably preserved at this point...:
...despite the fact that some trees have pushed their way through the banking and badly damaged it:
Looking the opposite way up the Byfleet Banking - A member from Atlas F1 posted a similar view of this, taken in 1986, with the road not there:
The very end of what's left of the Byfleet Banking - it's covered in trees and all kinds of shrubs:
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