FLY2 10,108 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Great times spent there ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Trent station main purpose was to enable people to change trains. Trains going directly to Sheffield missing Derby or trains from Sheffield to Leicester missing Derby would call at Trent & people could catch a train to Derby or Nottingham The closure & demolition of Victoria station + the closure of the whole Great Central was one of the greatest crimes that befell Nottingham 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Some young people don't realize there was a station there in the first place after all its more than fifty years since it's demise To have any real memories of Victoria station you have to be getting on for sixty 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 As I've said previously, the biggest piece of desecration ever in this city. Oh that the route was available nowadays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 DJ360 might correct me if I'm wrong but beneath Liverpool there are five underground railway stations which connect to main line stations. so simple & so good, better than our rubbish tram system. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 It doesn't look like anything near Moorbridge that I recall. I can understand the Arnold Rd idea, but the angle of road c.f. track looks too much for Arnold Rd. But then there were two Arnold Rd bridges. One crossed the Leen Valley Line between the Arnold Rd/Andover Rd. Gainsford Crs. junction... between it and Hucknall Rd. There would have been little building on the road around 1937. The next was the bridge over the track from Basford Northern (Basford and Bulwell) to Leen Valley Junction... just past Sunrise Avenue, off Arnold Rd. The 'new' bit of Arnold Rd from Hucknall Rd out to Edward's Lane was I think mostly post WW2. The bit from Hucknall Rd down towards Basford Crossings was built up much earlier. I think even Heathfield Est. was built pre war. So. in short. I dunno....but I reckon most of the lines around the area were built pre 1900... the GC being the last. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 I've had this discussion on a couple of other sites. It was definitely the Golden Key. A tiny pub... next door, or very close to the Moulin Rouge cinema. I believe the Cross Keys was further down into 'town' Byard Lane I believe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 Struggling to find a pic. Mal put one on 'Nottingham Way Back When' a while back, mainly of the old Moulin Rouge 'Dirt Mac' cinema, but it also showed the Golden Key. Another source for licensees in the 1890s lists: Quote Arthur Edward Rippin, Golden key, 29 Milton Street I'm now confused as to where Mansfield Road ends and Milton St starts. Main reason I don't participate much in discussion of old city centre stuff is because I simply don't remember that much. It's 48 years since I spent much time there. But I used to come home from college with a friend on Fridays around 1966. We'd have a couple of games of snooker somewhere around Shakespeare St way and then a couple in the Golden Key before he got his bus up to Carlton way and I got mine to Bestwood Est. Before Bob first suggested it, I don't think it had even registered with me that there was a pub there. It was so tiny. But I do remember a golden key over a doorway even from being small. I used to look out for it from the top floor of the bus. Nearest I can find. The cinema before it was the Moulin Rouge. Pub next door but tantalisingly the name isn't visible. https://picturethepast.org.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/NTGM019076/posterid/NTGM019076.html Here you go. Not easy, but with a magnifier you can make out the pub name and the Golden Key symbol laid horizontally just below it. And found this from Cliff-ton in another thread. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,417 Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 How appropriate - there's a customer at the Moulin Rouge box office wearing a mac.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 A lot of old photos of trains on the Notts area. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/gallery/photo-archive-shows-nottinghams-love-1894746 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 Steam operated face shovels, lovely Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 I would say most of it was dug out using those steam shovels,no need to blast,the sand stone is pretty soft around Nottingham, don't forget nearly all the tunnels and dwellings were dug out using simple hand tools for the most part Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,134 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 When waiting at my local railway crossing, the passage of the wagons, usually coal or fuel, used to cause a noticeable momentory dip in the track as they went over. I think the substrate has now been reinforced and the tracks are now rigid. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 If you want to ride the steam train up Snowdon its £39. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 Walked it a couple fo times £0, mind it did take nearly five hours, the train takes just over an hour Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 I shall be walking it next Saturday, Llanberis path. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 I went up by train, did walk down though 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 Mrs P climbs like a mountain goat but hates walking down, says it's dangerous, me, I don't mind but my lungs do Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 Sod that for a game of soldiers ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted November 8, 2018 Report Share Posted November 8, 2018 worth a look:- https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACkmg3Y64_s?rel=0 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,417 Posted November 8, 2018 Report Share Posted November 8, 2018 Brilliant Albert, loved the visual jokes, I might drop in to see that when I go over next year... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fogrider 179 Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 The Train, what a fantastic film, Burt Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau play superb parts. The railway scenes so well done, even a scene pouring a white metal bearing. Love it. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 More TA going to annual camp. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Is that you on far right of photo Albert? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 The steam loco version Rog 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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