BulwellBrian

The Great Central Railway was the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. The company just changed its name in about 1897 when it built the London extension. The LD&ECR was taken over by the GCR in 1907. The GCR became part of the LNER in 1923. The LD&ECR never cot anywhere near Lancashire or the East Coast. It ran from Chesterfield to just north of Lincoln.

I think it is true that there were no level crossings on the London Extension of the GCR but there were at least five in Grimsby, two within a few yards of each other. The one near the docks had to have a policeman on duty to enable the signal man to get the gates closed. It was a very wide crossing as it covered a junction with tracks to each side of the docks. It was closed to road traffic as for a long time particularly in the afternoon as many passenger trains from Cleethorpes stopped in the Docks station and a shunting engine the pushed one or two fish wagons across to attached to the bac

I went to Grantham station many times in the mid to late 1950's sometimes by train sometimes by bike. I remember going with my Dad who had work to do there, I led us into a non smoking compartment of a no corridor train, Dad liked his pipe and was not best pleased. If you arrived by bike it was not easy to get onto the station, the staff kept you off and there was nowhere near the station with a good view of the railway, Newark was much better and a shorter bike ride. There was at least one Haymarket A4 each day on the Elizabethan. Southbound one day and Northbound the next. but it was often

Road near Barnet called Trotters Bottom. My favorite is a road in Hull "Land of Green Ginger".

An ex Great Northern Railway 0-6-0, LNER class J6

The old map at #12 also shows the colliery line which ran to the landsale on Plains Road. It reached there by a rope worked incline.

They are the first photos I remember seeing of B12's at the Victoria, they date before I was a train spotter. They were most likely on Grantham's allocation. I did see B12's in East Anglia and at Grantham. They were good looking locos and looked bigger than they there were.

So I was, certainly narrower.

I never saw a B12 in Nottingham. The nearest I saw them was at Grantham when Peterborough used them on stopping trains.

Funny thing ones memory, I thought it was wider than that! I went through it twice a day for four years going to High Pavement school. There is a debate about it in another thread.

Ps. ive been wondering about sound at the Vic. Im guessing it would of had a echo so to speak with all the walls around it. Must of been a right racket with heavy trains trying to get away? The Locos of most trains were outside of the roof so the sound was no louder than other stations. The through freights were not going very fast. It was not a noisy station but it had more atmosphere than the Midland.

Many other locos, A3, B17, C4, D11, J1, J2, J5, J6, J11, J39, L1, N2, and many others back to GCR & GNR days.

Wetton Mill is actually in Staffordshire but with a Derbyshire post code. The tunnel was on the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway, a 2'6" gauge railway that ran from Hulme End to Waterhouses. It was opened in 1904 and closed in 1934. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway and then the LMS. The tunnel is called Swainsley Tunnel.

I remember at the Vernon Road clock, a trolly was taken off the wires to enable the one behind to overtake. Presumably a 44 was late at Bulwell Market and was behind a 43 that it should have been in front of.

Also at the 44 terminus at Bulwell Hall Estate. I have looked at my photos but no luck.

Most DMU's had mechanical transmission and had a blue square code above the buffers. The ones I traveled from St Albans to St Pancras were hydraulic transmission and had a red star code.

The LNER liked round top fireboxes and parallel boilers, the LMS Belpaire fireboxes and taper boilers as did the GWR. Round top fireboxes were simpler hence cheaper note used on the Austerities.

The only official name was B1, there were 410 of them built.

In the 1950's RR had a Lincoln bomber with a Tyne jet mounted in the nose, it used to fly around with the propellers feathered. They also had a VC 10 with one of the twin engine pods at the rear replaced by a large fan jet. The sound of jet engines being tested was a common thing.

A very interesting map. When was the gas works built? Could that have been at the same time as Vernon Road? I am pretty sure that Basford Crossings was always officially Lincoln Street Crossing to MR LMS & BR. Not David Lane. The original road priority is seen on the map. The Great Northern connection to Babbington/Cinderhill collieries is shown but not the Midland one!

When I was a child (long ago) we had a santa for the Christmas tree that was purple.

It's not Battersea Power Station, Its chimneys are on the corners of the building.

I am sorry to read of the death of Reg Simpson, he was a fine opening batsman. I spent many hours watching him at Trent Bridge in the 1950's & 1960's. RIP.

Born in Nottingham, lived in Bulwell, Married a lass from North London, brought her to Nottingham, lived on Southey Street Hyson Green, the back to Bulwell, then to Newthorpe Common near Eastwood, then to St.Albans. I have have two sons one in Harpenden Herts and one in Reading. I have a brother now in Lincolnshire near Boston.

Anyone who is a teacher deserves a medal. Mine did.