Looking through various posts on the forum I find a number of mentions of Wrigleys wagon works at Bulwell Forest station, a book I have been looking at gives the firms name as William Rigley & Sons Ltd. The works were started in 1896 and closed at the end of 1964. The steel framework of the main building was moved to the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley. There was a branch works at the side of the GCR at Bulwell Common station which appeared to date from 1919.
I don't know if they had any more works elsewhere.
I visited a working site one dark night with my parents & their friends as a teenager alongside the old GNR about where the Top Valley Estate is now. Perhaps it was close to the site of Bulwell Forest station although long closed by then as the line had no passenger traffic as I remember. Quite why we visited I do not know but presumably to see someone whom my parents or their friends knew. I remember that crossing the railway line we were not too far ahead of a quiet WD 2-8-0 passing northwards on a goods train. I have always assumed it was spelt with an "R". draycott john
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I visited a working site one dark night with my parents & their friends as a teenager alongside the old GNR about where the Top Valley Estate is now. Perhaps it was close to the site of Bulwell Forest station although long closed by then as the line had no passenger traffic as I remember. Quite why we visited I do not know but presumably to see someone whom my parents or their friends knew. I remember that crossing the railway line we were not too far ahead of a quiet WD 2-8-0 passing northwards on a goods train. I have always assumed it was spelt with an "R". draycott john