BulwellBrian

From Bestwood Junction.

Buses including Trollybuses could not pass each other under the bridge they had to go to the centre of the road to get through. The trolly wires were together in the middle. Wasn't John Peck an RAF pilot in the 2nd WW?

Is this the same curve which was quite steep and often caused problems for trains going up to Bulwell Common? It was steep and curved, the problem was if the train got held at Bulwell Common South Junction restarting the train could be difficult. It was not a busy line just a few trains each day.

Thats almost how it was. I am not sure which was taken first. The WD was deliberate as it sat there to be snapped, the electric took me by suprise, I was lucky to get my camera up and click.

What a great picture. It shows how quickly Nottingham was expanding. Most of the fields in the photo were built on in the next few years. The bridge looks open then as far as I can see.

The last map is very interesting. The bridge must have been built when the railway was built about 1898, I didn't realise that Brooklyn Road did not exist in its entireity until the council estate was built (1930's?). The Broomhill Road end of Brooklyn road was older, around 1900. When I was a child the houses on the hill near Broomhill Road were numbered from Broomhill Road i.e. low numbers, they were later renumbered with high numbers. Your conjecture about its limited use is probably correct but it was quite a wide enough for a lane each way farmers crossings were normally much narrower.

The map shows the road over the bridge from Saxondale Drive to Park Lane with a line over each end. This bridge was blocked to vehicles but it could be walked over, we callec it the "Broken Bridge". Why was it closed? What was wrong with it? It was not very old built about 1898.

It's name was changed in early BR days to Basford North. The map shows that the road changed from Vernon Road, Basford to Highbury Road, Bulwell at the railway bridge, we always called it the Northern Bridge.

Just north of the station

Same day

c.1958/9

Derwent Dam

The hundred year old man who jumped out of a window and disappeared.

Reading a bit more about the MS&LR Annesley line apparently the LNWR ran goods from Colwick to Sheffield via the GNR Leen Valley line then the MS&LR. Railway Companies often had "running powers" over other companies lines, these were legal agreements some times included in the parliamentary act for building the line. The situation around Nottingham was simplified when the GCR and GNR both became part of the LNER in 1923.

The Great Northern South of the tunnel was earlier this was the Leen Valley Railway. The MS&LR built the line to Annesley before the London Extension was planned. It linked to the GNR line south of the tunnel and allowed the MS&LR access to collieries and to Colwick. The GNR north of the tunnel was the Leen Valley Extension Railway. The MS&LR ran passenger trains from Staveley Town to Nottingham London Road Low Level. The tunnel was much in use before the GNR needed it and before the line through the Vic was built.

The Great Northern Line north of the tunnel was opened on 1 November 1901.

The tunnel was opened on 24 Oct 1892 and was 1000 yards long.

Some of the Midland General buses were actually branded Notts & Derby Traction Company.

The tunnel was constructed by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway the forerunner to the Great Central. I will have to look up the date.

It was the RCTS East Midlander No.7 on 9 May 1964. The departure time was 7:35am the photo was taken just before then. 46251 took the 12 coach train to Didcot, it was then replaced by 34038 LYNTON to Eastleigh for a visit to the works, then Swindon via Salisbury for the works there, after whitch 46251 returned to take the train back to the Vic. getting back at just after 10:30pm. A great day.

re 233 Leen Valley Junction was quite a busy place. The most unusual locos there were London & North Western 0-8-0's "Super D". They came up the GNR/LNWR joint line from Northampton.

5'8" for the Grange 6'0" for the Hall. The boiler & cylinders were the same.

I too think it is a Manor. A replica Grange is being built at Langollen.

Methane is explosive in air at approximately 5% to 15%. The smell at Basford would by in parts per million.