The Locomotive 'Nottingham Forest"

[admin 21]

The Locomotive 'Nottingham Forest" shown here.

I believe entering Victoria Station from the North.

I think that might be Huntingdon Street behind?

But when would that have been?

[Bip 88]

:D Your right in thinking it's Huntington street mick....

:D I have done some research but haven't come up with a date yet but, i have found some more useless info..

:D It's LNER No was 2866

:D It's 1946 No was 1666

:D It's BR No was 61666

:D It built date is 2/1937

:D Re Built as B17/6

:D Re built date is 12/1947

:D Disposal date was 3/1960

[Caz 25]

Yep you were quite right BIP that was useless

[admin 21]

You girlies don't find this stuff interesting???

[Caz 25]

errrr................................NO

[Tutanic 8]

All I ever wanted when I was young was a train set and all I got was a soppy doll.

Ilove trains but I am afraid they have all gone to pot, you couldn't beat the old steam trains and going on holiday from Victoria Station.

A

[Caz 25]

I hear you can get CD's with sounds of trains & steam whooshing out of the chimmney too, great way to spend a saturday night

[Bip 88]

Each to their own Caz, what ever turns you on...

I once worked with a chap who was mad about trains, there was nothing he didn't know about them it was just amazing how much he knew. He was one of those that use to buy tapes and records of train noises and many a time he would listen to them at work, one day i asked him what are you listening too thinking it was music trains he said, trains i said, yes trains he said, do you what a listen, yes i said, well i couldn't beleive my ears, chuff chuff puff puff..He could tell you what class the train was from just listening to the noise it made...

:D As a young un i was a train spotter of sorts, not a anarak train spotter, i just liked them to a degree.. I use to travel not to far to get their numbers, Crew, Victoria Station, Midland Station. One of the main places where i use to go and it's still there i think well it was the last time i passed by, Trowel, the metal foot bridge over the lines there,you go down a narrow road to it, i bet Ilko knows where i mean..Spent many a sunny day their. I use to cycle there from Bilborough, those were the days when i was fit, i still cycle now but not as far..

[ilkolad 9]

re the footbridge you mention, was it off Coventry lane?, the map shows a railtrack along there.. don't recognise it much nowadays since they've smoothed it out and got rid of that nasty bridge.. apparently it's no safer along there though, as it's only a few months ago there were a stack of flowers placed at the side of the road, nodoubt the scene of a fatal crash. ..

[Guest scooterboy]

Do you mean the 1 at the ilson end of ilkeston road and bottom of nottingham road . The bridge that takes you upto top cut ?

I know the 1 you mean ilko more accidents now that the road is straight boy racers can get their foot down now...

[Bip 88]

scooterboy Posted on Apr 3 2005, 01:25 PM

  Do you mean the 1 at the ilson end of ilkeston road and bottom of nottingham road . The bridge that takes you upto top cut ? 

That's the one, you go down Stoney lane, A Private Road.

Passed by on Thursday last week on my way into Ilkeston, trying to find Mark Lightfoots Garage on Rutland Street... he's a Citreon & Peugeot Specialist...

[mick2me 3,033]

The Locomotive 'Nottingham Forest" shown here.

I believe entering Victoria Station from the North.

I think that might be Huntingdon Street behind?

But when would that have been?

The painting shows Ex-LNER Locomotive B17/6 No. 61666 named 'Nottingham Forest' in its British Rail Livery on a Football Special entering Nottingham Victoria from the North. One of a batch of 25 Locomotives named after Football Clubs, 'Nottingham Forest' entered service in February 1937 and was withdrawn in March 1960 and scrapped a month later.

[alisoncc 379]

I love trains but I am afraid they have all gone to pot,  you couldn't beat the old steam trains and going on holiday from Victoria Station.

A

When we went to Cleethorpes for the day, we would catch a train from the Midland Station (LMS) to Lincoln. Then change stations for the LNER line to Grimsby. The smell as you arrived in Grimsby was horrendous. All the fish goods wagons were queued up for loading at the fish docks. Then on to Cleethorpes.

Who remembers Grimsby fish docks from their days at the seaside ?

Hugs Alison

[rob237 89]

I love trains but I am afraid they have all gone to pot,  you couldn't beat the old steam trains and going on holiday from Victoria Station.

A

When we went to Cleethorpes for the day, we would catch a train from the Midland Station (LMS) to Lincoln. Then change stations for the LNER line to Grimsby. The smell as you arrived in Grimsby was horrendous. All the fish goods wagons were queued up for loading at the fish docks. Then on to Cleethorpes.

Who remembers Grimsby fish docks from their days at the seaside ?

Hugs Alison

The Grimsby vapours were available more locally on a daily basis, as the Grimsby-Whitland 'fast fish' train came through at around tea time.

We scholars cycling home beneath Arnold Road railway bridge always knew when it has passed through, as the aroma remained for about 15 mins thereafter!

It usually spent some time at Nottingham Vic' on the back platform, as the stock - which often ran up to 50 wagons - was remarshalled.

BTW: The 'Nottingham Forest at the Vic' portrait can be dated between 1951 and 1958...for reasons you don't need to know!

In reality this sight could never have occurred, as the loco's only visits here were pre, and during, WW2 when it was based at Gorton, Manchester.....not known to have appeared in BR days, as it's area of regular work was then exclusively in East Anglia.

Cheers

Robt P.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Huntingdon St was two over to the right, Mansfield road to the left, I forget what the one on the top of the tunnel was.

[Frank 13]

Who remembers Grimsby fish docks from their days at the seaside ?

Hugs  Alison

Ayup Alison meduk

I still go to Grimsby Docks everytime I visit one of my customers who has a branch in Grimsby. Take the cool box up in the van with a load of ice in it and then it's fresh fish for tea ....mmmmmmmmmmmmm

There's a bloke who has a few trawlers and also a chippy in town next to the train station. All the small fish he catches are then sold direct from the chippy. We usually get fish and chips just before we travel home, at lunchtime. Everything is 99p. Fish & Chips, Sausage & Chips, Pie & Chips..... etc. OK, the portions aren't massive but they are great for a lunchtime.

[alisoncc 379]

Talking about train and things. There used to be a huge shunting yard off Wilford Road. My Dad was Train Guard, and I regularly walked there with him up Traffic Street. Every so often he would be rostered on a passenger train, and would always wear his best uniform, white shirt and black tie on those occasions.

In the mid-late fifties they had an indoor .22 rifle range there, which he introduced me to. There was non of the drama you get these days. After finishing my paper-round in the evening, I would go there, call in at one of the offices and collect a rifle, the keys and buy some ammo, then a short walk to the range to fire off twenty rounds or so on my own. Drop off the rifle and keys, and head home with practice target in hand.

Mind you it was close enough to the war that having people who could shoot accurately was still considered a plus.

Hugs Alison

PS. What I remember most about Nottingham were the smells. From Grimsby Fish Docks, on Traffic Street there was a wood works - the smell of fresh cut timber, there was the Gas Works up Station Street - where we used to buy a barrow full of coke for a shilling, and there was the glue factory - when the wind was in the wrong direction did it stink. I think they boiled up animal bones down near the abbatoir at the bottom of London Road, just up from Trent Bridge.

The barrow for the coke was a huge wooden crate on a pram frame. <giggle> Which us kids used to push there and back.

[alisoncc 379]

PPS. That wasn't an air rifle. It was the real thing, with real bullets.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

I remember seeing all those steam loco's waiting to go under the torch in the late 50's early 60's, what a sad site. I used to go past the old loco sheds almost everyday on Wilford Road..

[rob237 89]

I remember seeing all those steam loco's waiting to go under the torch in the late 50's early 60's, what a sad site. I used to go past the old loco sheds almost everyday on Wilford Road..

John,

Never any loco sheds on Wilford Road, nor even a sub-shed.

The engine sheds were at Colwick...

Wilford Road sidings used for wagon storage..you might see an occasional shunter.

Some loco's were stored there briefly prior to scrapping, but very few.

Cheers

Robt P.

[alisoncc 379]

Never any loco sheds on Wilford Road, nor even a sub-shed.

The engine sheds were at Colwick...

Wilford Road sidings used for wagon storage..you might see an occasional shunter.

Not sure about that luv. My Dad always used to threaten me that if I didn't get better reports at school he would have me in overalls cleaning out the boilers for a job. Once taking me up there to show me. There was a big shed where they were doing loco maintenance off Wilford Road. This would have been round about 1957.

Hugs Alison

[rob237 89]

Never any loco sheds on Wilford Road, nor even a sub-shed.

The engine sheds were at Colwick...

Wilford Road sidings used for wagon storage..you might see an occasional shunter.

Not sure about that luv. My Dad always used to threaten me that if I didn't get better reports at school he would have me in overalls cleaning out the boilers for a job. Once taking me up there to show me. There was a big shed where they were doing loco maintenance off Wilford Road. This would have been round about 1957.

Hugs Alison

Clearly we have been posting at cross purposes...

Your reference - and that of John's - relate to the Midland freight yards and loco shed running parallel with Castle Boulevard.

My misinterpretation was that the earlier thread theme related to the Eastern, which was a seperate line.

Their 'Wilford sidings' were located immediately after crossing the Trent, but before the Wilford Lane overbridge.

I have 'O' levels in Woodwork, Geography and Confusion

Cheers

Robt P.

[plantfit 7,580]

Ayup Rob,

Nice to read about steam related loco's. Can you remember the little loco that was used for shunting coal about at the Wilford power station?

Rog

[rob237 89]

Rog,

'Fraid not....logically it should have been named 'Wilf'!

Many of the NCB steam shunters were so old (the majority were of 19th century origin) that they still carried the names of the original colliery owners.

A Bestwood Colliery shunter was 'Lancaster' and Cinderhill had a loco named 'Newcastle'

Cheers

Robt P.

[plantfit 7,580]

Rob,

The name has just come to me, MICHAEL. it was a little 0 4 0 saddle tank. I used to see it working the line near to the old Lenton lane, about where the Honda car sales place is now.

Rog