The long and level stretch of line, the nearest suitable abandoned line to Cambridge, was ideal for the Observatory's CLFST, AMI, One-Mile and Ryle rail-mounted radio-telescopes which move along a 4.8 km length of track of approximately 20 ft gauge.
Hubble Space Telescope | telescope | Spitzer Space Telescope | radio telescope | Space Telescope Science Institute | James Webb Space Telescope | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope | Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | William Herschel Telescope | Ryle Telescope | One-Mile Telescope | Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope | Anglo-Australian Telescope | Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope | South Pole Telescope | Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope | Australia Telescope National Facility | Very Large Telescope | reflecting telescope | Radio telescope | MAGIC (telescope) | Liverpool Telescope | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope | J. C. Ryle | Hexapod-Telescope | Gornergrat Infrared Telescope | Gerard Ryle | Australia Telescope Compact Array | As Seen Through a Telescope | Anthony Ryle |