Compo 10,328 Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 This photo is for sale on eBay at the moment: Bulwell Forest Railway Station Photo. Daybrook - Bestwood Colliery. GNR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 When my friend and I used to stand at the railings on that path by Bulwell Common looking down onto Common station and collecting train numbers, we could hear them shunting at the forest station. Wrigley's Wagon works was adjacent and they scrapped a lot of steam locos there in the 60s. We were only about 10 and had cycled from Bilborough. (!!!) Common station still had a steady stream of coal trains and the odd local passenger train (1961). Also what was left of the slow trains going north along the GCR. The old structure of Wrigley's Wagon Works building now forms part of the museum at Swanwick Junction on the Midland Railway Trust. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks for that. I didn't know the waggon works building had survived. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 It was Rigleys, no W. Its a common mistake. The firm was W Rigley & Sons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 oops! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 I must have been chewing gum at the time. Funny thing. I drove along Hucknall Road today coming back home from taking my Mother in Law to the Mary Potter Centre. That path and the railings are still there at the edge of the Common. No railways though. The double bridge parapets are partly there on Kersall Drive. An old driver friend of mine, Bill Reed took loads of photos around there and some have actually appeared on this forum. I have written some (pretty cheesy) poetry about the demise of the old railways just to get some of it out of my system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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