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Thanks for your replies fellas. It is indeed deeply frustrating that they only want to sell you photo's and go to great lengths to make sure that you can't copy them without a watermark. I made a note of a lot of photo's - intending to either buy them or view them in greater detail later. I did copy the tiny sample photo at the time to remind myself of what they were, but it would seem that the powers that be just decided to re-organise everything. The same thing happened with Old Maps -who were a good resource but watermarked into oblivion. In they end the whole site was just d

One of the really good resources for Notts pictures was Picture the Past. But it all seems to have changed now. Picture the past now seems to be all Derbyshire pictures, and photo's of Nottinghamshire moved to a new site: Picturenottingham. However a lot of the photo's have gone missing and are no longer on any of those sites. I made a note of some photo's some time ago, but they have just disappeared. Any photo with a number starting NCC has gone. Pictures of my old school and parts of Bramcote no longer available. Does anyone have any idea where they've been mov

I'm not sure if Douglas Avenue in Carlton has been mentioned. It seemed pretty steep to me when I was working at Co-Op servicing at the top of the hill in the late 70's. Buses seemed to have a hard time getting up it after having turned round at the bottom. I remember walking down to the bottom many times to get to Carlton station. If you want to see a genuinely steep hill then check out St Patrick's Hill in Cork in Ireland. Have a look on Streetview. I had to check it several times when I was there on business a few years back. Why would anyone build on su

At the risk of upsetting people, I completely agree. I don't come here half as much.

Nah. It was better before.

Mmm.... I can't help thinking that maybe you missed the point.

In another thread someone said that things change and that we'd 'just have to get used to it', but inevitably, if something is awkward then people will just drift away. Or do something else.

Or.... We could just not bother.

Call me old fashioned, but I liked the way Nottstalgia was before. The layout and software was easy to use and one could see new topics immediately. I used to be part of another forum that was very popular until they decided to completely change everything, because (they said) they wanted the site to be more smart phone friendly. Ah well...... Progress ?

Re #123 I bet he looks rough without the syrup !

Well, credit where credit is due, I didn't think that they'd have trains running again quite so soon. No trains stopping at Loughborough, but at least they've got things moving again. It'll still be weeks till that bridge is fixed.

No, not at all Tim. When it was British Rail they would hold connections if a train was late. They would put on additional services or run on 'duplicate' routes (which they still had). In other words, they would do what it took to get the passenger home. Now the rail companies couldn't give a toss. Additional services cost money which they are reluctant to stump up, and maintenance and repair is at the behest of independent contractors who demand that whole routes are closed while they casually fix the problem as it suits them. (Overtime being a massive earner). Not only are rail bosses

We don't have an integrated transport system Albert. Different companies on different lines. They are reluctant to have their services altered. The last consideration is the passenger. It only takes one thing to go wrong and the train companies are like headless chickens. If we don't sit in a designated seat on a specific train at a specific time then we get penalised. But when they mess up then it's all 'please bear with us'. #4 I bet you'll be on a bus for the Loughborough to Leicester part of your journey. They won't have that bridge repaired for weeks!

You've probably seen on the news that trains between Nottingham and Leicester - including long distance services, are in chaos because of a bridge collapse at Barrow on Soar (just past Loughborough). It's a bridge 'over the line' rather than one carrying train tracks. As far as I know, locals have been complaining about the poor state of this bridge for ages. There was a quite serious dip in it on one side. As soon as they started work on it, it collapsed. Yet another example of Network Rail leaving things until they are in a desperate state. Hope that won't affect the bonuses of the senio

Whenever they film at heritage stations or steam preservation sites - pretending to be in the 30's or 40's, they frequently make the mistake of showing tracks with 'concrete' sleepers. Railway tracks traditionally used wooden sleepers (treated with creosote) until the end of the 60's - when they brought in welded rails and sleepers made from bright white concrete. It's a small point I know, but it's always a dead giveaway. Funnily enough, on a technical point, wooden sleepers cause less wear on ballast because of their relative flexibility. Concrete sleepers have to be cushioned around ben