firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Taken probably about 1965, I'm trying to work out who will get it first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Colwick and Netherfield ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Nope Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Whilst looking through some of my pics, I found this one, I recall taking it and wandering round the site at the time. It's very sad that such a magnificent edifice has been wiped of the face of the earth without trace, I have got some momento's of it though. Note that the platform glazing has gone and that the roof covering has been stripped. I wonder what happened to those magnificent cast iron brackets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Trent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Nope. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 St Pancras? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Beeston ? Attenborough ? or Ilkeston ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Bulwell Hall Halt? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 St Pancras? C'mon pal, I thought you'd do better than that, I'm not giving any clues either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Beeston ? Attenborough ? or Ilkeston ? Nope Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Bulwell Hall Halt? Hmmmmmmm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Ok, a clue, catch a train from there and you might have ended up at one of the major Nottingham stations. Not very helpfull am I, note the word 'relatively'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Derby Friargate? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Burton Joyce? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annesley 0 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hmmmm, definitely ex GN but tricky.... I'll have to go with Derby Friargate as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lynmee 38 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Widmerpool? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Mansfield? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Radcliffe on Trent? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Sorry not to get back on here sooner, correct Scriv and Annesley, it was Derby Friargate. I've been trying to find some pictures of it in it's heyday but they are as rare as hens teeth for some reason. Following our annual trips to Derby Open Day, my old man used to bundle us on to a trolleybus off to Friargate where rather than fighting our way on to an overcrowded DMU back to Nottingham, we would arrive at this deserted station and catch the Llandudno saturday excursion back to Vic, always a very long and empty train hauled by a Class 5. We went back one day in 1965 prior to the station being destroyed, which was when I took the photo, the glazed canopies had gone, but I remember the ground floor booking hall being strewn with documents and all sorts of labels such as:- I've got hundreds of them rescued from the vandals, the North Staffs employment cards are interesting, look at the date, I've got loads of them. Has anyone else got any memories of Friargate, Derby's unloved station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 must be nice to be an 'Excepted Person'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 must be nice to be an 'Excepted Person'. Victorian clinical classifiction, obviously, it would appear that some of us still aren't mate, things don't change much do they. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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