Went for a long walk through the woods in Crowthorne the other day and came across this section of banked track, it seemed totally weird that it would be in the middle of a forest but then I remembered that this area used to be part of the "TRL" or the transport research laboratory. This organisation was set up in 1933 to investigate all things roads, traffic and vehicle safety and their test tracks used to be spread all over this forest, which used to be closed to the public. Now all their test tracks are slowly being reclaimed by the forest critters but some, like this high speed section of track, still lurk in the woods waiting to be discovered.
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