BulwellBrian

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  1. I was at High Pavement 1953-1959 in Sherwood House.

     

    I don't think there was any wicket gates, just broken down fence but I agree it was easy to cross. I never walked any of the lines, I think that respect for authority was so drilled into me that I was too good.

     

    I have been wondering about the speed limit on the line, I don't think it was very high, about 25 or 30mph. I only remember O4 and WD 2-8-0's pulling the trains, Its such a long time ago.

  2. A photo in the Middleton Press book "Nottingham Trolleybuses" shows that the term "Railless" was officially used on the stop outside the Bell Inn, It shows route 42 to Bulwell Hall Esatate and route 43 to Bulwell Market.

     

    As a child I remember that the 42 ran Old Market Square to Bulwell Market, 43 Trent Bridge to Bulwell Market and 44 Colwick Road to Bulwell Hall Estate. The 42 was then cut back to the Northern Baths.

     

    I remember that Trolleybus stops were green and motor bus stops red, sometimes both on the same pole. Some were bus stops but most were request stops.

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  3. I have just come across this topic, only two months after it first started. I must have been roaming the forest at the same time as DJ360 but smewhat less observant. I also went to High Pavement!

    I would add these comments and memories.

     

    The wooden building oposite the golf house was the original station building of Bulwell Forest station on the Great Northern Railway line.

    The wagon works was W Rigley & son, not Wrigley (they made chewing gum).

    Acording to George Dow's book on the Great Central Railway their original intention was to build the Loco shed and sidings there instead of at Annesley.

    I remember the railway house at on the GNR the gates were fastened shut but the fencing had been broken down so it could be used as a short cut otherwise one would have to walk to the marble arch to cross the railway. I think there was a train in section indicator on the house that worked from the signals.

     

    I spent a lot of my time at the bridge at the station and at the footpath opposite Cantrell Road. I remember that most of the signals at Bulwell Common Station were upper quadrants but the signal from the northbound loop and sidings were lower quadrants on a wooden post GCR originals I would think.

     

    When I was very young there was no golf on Sundays so my parents would take my brother and I a walk over the golf course. We would start at the Station bridge ad walk over to the bridge out onto Bestwood Road (or Lane) then back home via Austin Street. A longer walk would lake us down to the bottom corner of the common near Moor Bridge then home Via Main Street.

     

    A lot of fun was had on the common. I left Bulwell in about 1972.

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  4. I went to Albert Street infants and junior schools in 1947 to 1953, went to the Highbury cinema and was dragged down to the market. I lived on Henrietta Street the other side of Highbury Road.

     

    The coal wagons were from more than Hucknall colliery, the line served Bestwood, Hucknall, Linby, Annesley, Newstead and many more including Calverton when it opened in the 1950's. The passenger trains were going to Mansfield and Worksop.

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  5. All railway construction from the early days used excavated material from cuttings etc for building embankments where neaded. The contractors who built the early railways needed to calculate how much "fill" they required and did their section produce enough from excavations needed if they got it wrong they went bankrupt.

  6. Royal Scott.............46170 different steam pipes

    46170 had different boiler, the only one of its type. The boiler was redesgned for the rebuilding of Royal Scots, Jubilees, & Patriots. Its boiler situation was similar to 60700, which had also been rebuilt from an experimental high pressure loco.

  7. Dad would occasionally be rostered to drive the Grimsby/Immingham fish train, and he usually came home with something wrapped in newspaper - skate balls were considered a great delicacy. Never heard of them since, and wonder if it was a fatherly joke.

    I had an aunt & uncle who lived near Grimsby, they sometimes cooked skate balls, I think they were from the tongues and cheeks of the fish, there was one particular fish shop close to the docks that sometimes had them for sale. I don't think that many skate were caught. I also remember skate wings that my aunt would also cook.

  8. I worked at Cinderhill Laboratory from 1959 to 1969, we were required to go underground for sampling purposes, so I did my underground training at Hucknall No.1 (Top Pit), I then went down Babbington, Bestwood, Calverton, Cotgrave, Gedling, Hucknall No.2, & Linby. I also did various sampling at all of the previously name collieries plus Clifton, Radford, Wollaton and later after area mergers Moorgreen, Pye Hill, Bentinck & New Hucknall. After I joined marketing dept visits to collieries were fewer and the last two pit sufaces I visited were Betteshanger and Snowdown in Kent.

    I did go to many NCB office sites including Eastwood Hall & Hobart House where I worked others being Sherwood Lodge, Scottish HQ in Edinburgh, Gateshead, Doncaster, Anderton House at Lowton, Stoke, Cannock computer centre, Llanershen Cardiff, Coal House Harrow and the Dover office.

    It was a privilege to work in such an interesting industry and with such decent people.

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