[Bulwell photos.]

I remember my dad who, was from Bulwell mentioning the Legion at Percy Andrews, so yes,what was the connection?

I don't know - perhaps Percy Andrew's social club provided meeting facilities for them or something? I'm only speculating.

Anyone on here who used to work at Percy Andrew's?

[Trinity Square Cafe 1960s]

I remember sometimes on a 6 the driver would turn off Arnold Road and go straight up Andover Road by mistake instead of going up Gainsford Crescent. Oops!

[Bulwell photos.]

Was the British Legion at Percy Andrews?

How do you mean? Connected with the social club?

[Trinity Square Cafe 1960s]

I know the 49 was on the west side (and the 64 as well?). As far as I remember the 6, 17 and 28 all went from the north side.

[Bulwell photos.]

Sometime in the 1980s I would guess. Is that the Fine Fare supermarket on the site of Percy Andrews?

[Hogwarts Express at Loughborough Central]

According to the Wikipedia entry:

'Two full-size replicas of the locomotive are at the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando One of these is used as part of the Hogwarts Express train ride and the other is on display in Hogsmeade'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_4900_Class_5972_Olton_Hall

I'm not sure if Olton Hall (which is how I prefer to think of it) is currently at Shildon or Carnforth.

[The Gresham Hotel.]

Never even knew there'd been a cinema there:

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/45060

[Hogwarts Express at Loughborough Central]

Speaking of Carnforth, here's a photo I took of 'Flying Scotsman' on a steam special in 1979. That's the only time I visited there (been through it of course).

[Hogwarts Express at Loughborough Central]

I think you're correct about Taw Valley. This is a quote from the site below:

'The first ‘real’ Hogwarts Express was created to promote the Harry Potter books in the UK in the early 2000s, when a railtour was organised, working its way round the country behind Southern Railway West Country class light pacific locomotive, “Taw Valley”. The locomotive was repainted scarlet for its role, with a new nameplate carrying its “Hogwarts Express” title...For the Harry Potter films, director Chris Columbus apparently thought that Taw Valley didn’t have quite the look he was after, and he eventually settled on Great Western Railway locomotive Olton Hall as having a suitable appearance. Such a locomotive would never have run from London to Scotland, and certainly wasn’t built at Crewe, so thank goodness magic can explain away any such inconsistencies.'

https://thebeautyoftransport.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/the-many-lives-of-the-hogwarts-express-transport-from-the-world-of-harry-potter/

There's a picture of Taw Valley here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/60854097@N06/6652511821/

[Great Central Railway]

Are you using an IPad Merthyr Imp ? If so I have similar problems.....see the forum on posting links.

Thanks - I DID find something in that forum:-

'To do that I had to toggle the icon in the top left corner. Whatever you've got it set on, set it the other way.'

That did the trick.

So here's another link to more GCR information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Central_Railway_(Nottingham)

[Great Central Railway]

Nothing to do with Windows 8.1 then.

No - I fact I wouldn't be 100% sure what an IPad is let alone use one!

[Great Central Railway]

The only slight drawback I can see is that the new bridge will be single track - but I expect they can cope with that for such a short stretch.

[Great Central Railway]

I can no longer either include quotes from previous posts or copy and paste anything (including links). Well, I can paste if I enable the HTML editor, but it won't do links and it messes up the formatting.

Don't know if it's as result of moving from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 a while ago, but I can't see anything on this site about what settings to adjust.

[Great Central Railway]

Thanks for putting those links in for me.

[Great Central Railway]

I don't think the preserved Great Central Railway were in a position to reinstate the bridge 'years ago'.

 

On the site I put that link to it mentions

'we now have a grant of one million pounds from the Governments Local Growth Fund towards replacing the rest of the 500 missing metres of track between the two halves of the GCR.'So they have got some grant money, although apparently not from the National Lottery, nor directly towards the actual bridge but the approaches to it.The British Gypsum trains (which I believe still run) use the 1977-built link from the Midland Main Line at Loughborough, so would not be affected by the existence of the new bridge.There's more on the following website: http://www.greatcentraltoday.com/gcrn/

[Great Central Railway]

All details are here: http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/unify/

(It won't let me post an actual link)

[Brian Clough.....40 Years]

It was all downhill after they signed Jim Baxter.

[Quoting the previous post]

OldSchool (Import) has a tick next to it.

[Canal Street bridge]

A bit more information, from 'The Rise & Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network Vol. 3 - Off the Beaten Track' by Hayden J. Reed, published by Book Law.

'[The] short section of the old GCR structure [crossing the Nottingham Canal] was incorporated into the NET Line One...The additional width required for platforms necessitated the construction of a reinforced concrete cantilever deck above the original structure.'

'The first half kilometre of route follows the line and level of the Great Central's London Extension. The steel bridges that carried the GCR had disappeared long before the NET project evolved, but six spans of the old GC viaduct to the north of Station Street, including the crossing of the Beeston Canal were reused with new cantilevered parapets to carry the platforms of the terminus. Initial designs had planned to use more of the GCR structure to the north of Canal Street, but the desire for clear space beneath the structure to permit development, and the complexity of providing a [tramway] connection access to Middle Hill led to the old arches being abandoned in favour of a new purpose built structure.'

[Quoting the previous post]

It no longer lets me do quotes any more even if I want to - or paste anything either. Anybody got any ideas as to what may be going wrong?

[Canal Street bridge]

According to a note on the following website the new viaduct needed to be higher: http://www.nettrams.net/PictureGallery/PGDriverView/DVPages/STWSP02F.htm

[Set of images from the Great Central Railway 1984]

'a fantastic railway opportunity thrown away ,it could have made a high speed link to London'

At the time of its closure they were more interested in high speed roads to London.

Still can't do quotes on here any more.

[The Trinity Square disaster]

That photograph would have been taken from approximately where it says P.H. at the top centre of Cliff Ton's map.

[The Trinity Square disaster]

I believe Trinity Square church was demolished in 1958.

[The Trinity Square disaster]

The arrow in Cliff Ton's posting above is pointing to the gable end of the station building (which has the clock tower in the middle of it). Remember this photo has been reversed. The original photo in briyeo's posting makes perfect sense, with the Mechanics being demolished in the foreground centre of the picture and beyond it from left to right, the clock tower, the gable end of the station building and the hotel.

Remember the hotel didn't look the same from the back as from the front. If we were looking from inside the partly demolished station we'd be seeing the back of the hotel.