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Just for a bit of fun I coloured a black and white image of a Notts and Derby Tram at the terminus on Upper Parliament Street Nottingham. I am not making any claims that these colours are at all accurate though.

I have only just come across this topic while researching Nott's and Derby Traction Tramcar livery, so please excuse me for bringing it up again if you bother about such things. These model trams are a good representation of the ones used by Nott's and Derby Traction. As said above they didn't have fleet names on the side, Derby's trams had a very obvious fleet name that I can't believe this very good model maker would have left off his models. The description of the N&D tram livery that I have seen are either Light Green and Cream or Bright Green and Cream, that would also match

Mention above by Brew of a Brough Superior with twin rear wheels, I just came across this pdf article about one. http://davestestsandarticles.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/4/5/4845046/mcsoct68broughaustin.pdf

Does anyone have any information on Nottingham made Blacknell Sidecars? either Shops, Factories or products. I can remember in the mid 1960's you could buy second hand combinations for about £25

I haven't posted here for a while, I was looking for information on Blacknell Sidecars, they had a shop at 9 Derby Road at one time and in 1959 had a new factory at the Wharf, Gregory Street, Lenton. Last year I finally started restoring my 1966 Triumph Tiger 90, I bought the bike in 1969 but for the last 40 years it has languished in various sheds and garages and suffered a bit over the years. I just didn't have the time or money to do anything about it until I retired a few years ago.I stopped working on it in the winter as I only have a leaky asbestos garage to work in, I prefer

No offence at all, I just thought I should put some perspective to the exhibition. Janine is a remarkable lady and wouldn't allow INTU to scupper her dream of making sure that as many people in the city as possible get to know about the station. Some say she carries a blue brick plucked from the dark depths of Thurland Street Tunnel in her handbag, helps no end in negotiations.

Just to mention that the exhibition being discussed was put together by members of a Facebook Group, there wasn't any official backing from any organisations, The exhibition had very meagre funds but a lot of effort combined with a great passion for the station. Mostly the work of one woman, Janine Tanner, a great deal of persuasion was required to get INTU to allow any sort of commemoration of the Victoria Station in the shopping centre. I don't think the expectations of the group were to excite the knowledgeable, like yourselves, but more to enlighten the many who didn't even know there had

Can anyone help with this query that was posted on a Nottingham Railways Facebook Group? "Not quite on message, but I need a little help. I am a priest in Northampton. I am to take a funeral for a former ticket collector on Nottingham buses. The family tell me that there was a local name for such a person but cannot remember what Mum told them. Can you help?"

There were Jenson Motors Jen Tug petrol engine and Jen Helec battery powered. Also the Karrier Bantam.

It sure is, the portal still intact too.

Red zone car park area under the Victoria Centre, but what's behind the doors?

C12 Tank loco 67363 on a RCTS tour in 1951, this loco was used on the Annesley Dido too. I don't know if it was the same tour but in the same year 1951 this loco ended up at Heanor South station on the GNR Ilkeston to Heanor branch with a RCTS special.

Edited, I removed the image I posted here because I have just realised it was posted in another thread on this site by another member a while ago. So I will use a link to his original post instead. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13046&p=293204

A group of people from a Nottinghamshire railways related Facebook group recently had the pleasure of a guided walk inside the Thurland Street tunnel. Accessed from the underground car park levels. It is still in very good condition apparently. I have been amazed at how much of Nottingham Victoria still remains, there is a small section of the stations Glasshouse Street wall left visible, complete with the buff coloured glazed bricks.

Just catching up on this thread, Post # 84, there is a photo of a MGO A1 at Broadmarsh.

Thanks Robbie, my son and I are trying to get enough good shots to have a photo book made of him.

My mate Jack.

The answer to the question in post # 521 is that Glyn Pickworth was driving the MGO Lodekka that ran off the road near Langley Mill and Eastwood GNR station. It wasn't his fault, you can read is own account on this website scroll down towards the bottom of the page. http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2publictransport.html

I was posting on that Facebook page "Eastwood and Kimberley Bygones", without realising that the images were from my post here. ;-)

They look like the ones I posted a while ago on this thread, I put the red markings on the map, see post #82 ;-) That is no surprise though, if you google "Bonser Engineering" this site is the second one down in the search results.

Someone mentioned the motorcycle in the Bonser factory entrance again today on a local Facebook page, and I remembered that Ashley had spoken of it here. Is this the bike Ashley? It's now at the National Motorcycle Museum. Like you said, the engine has no internal parts.

It's interesting isn't it :-) Looking at the posts here I nearly changed my mind again. The partly demolished building has 7 arched windows same as the Mechanics, the ones we see are on the side wall that would have had the next building up against it, so they are not complete windows like the ones that face the road. The brackets we can see on the lower part of the remaining wall would have supported the gallery seating. This is the interior that shows the seating.

Colour image of the building. https://flic.kr/p/3Jx2Ju

This image caused some confusion on a railway Facebook page yesterday, sorry about the quality. A lot of people couldn't separate it from the many demolition photos of Victoria station. Some thought it was printed in reverse :-) But it is the demolition of the Mechanics Cinema or Institute is it not?

Yes it is being made within TS2015 by Dovetail Games. At the moment it is THE train simulator to have https://www.facebook.com/railsimulator We are using 3DCrafter by Amabilis to make our models, it's more difficult to use than Sketchup and can be very frustrating at times. The base game provides your world and has an editing application for making the scenery, roads etc. It is quite sophisticated for a game and there is almost no limit for skilled users, for instance you can import terrain data gained from satellites that will automatically form all the hills and valleys for you. Because