nottinghamite 8 Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 I remember going on a day trip from Bulwell Common to Colwyn Bay in 51 with my girl friend later to become my wife. We had a nice day out but on returning had a hell of a long wait at Bromsgrove near to Birmingham and we were in trouble with Lyn's mum for being about an hour late getting back, it was after her having to be in time. Seem to remember the station was on the far side of the common. What station would it have been, lefthand side of Hucknall Road going towards Moor bridge. Dennis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 That would've been Bulwell Common station on the Great Central. And if you can't remember, this is what it looked like https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bulwell+common+station&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HkEAUdesGITJ0AWJ8YH4DA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1283&bih=709 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nottinghamite 8 Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 Thank you Cliff some interesting photos. Dennis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 There was another station by Bulwell Common. Just across Hucknall Road was Bulwelll Forest. A great Northern Station opened on 1/10/1887 and closed 23/9/1929. I believe this was latterly Wrigley's Carriage and waggon works. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I remember going on a day trip from Bulwell Common to Colwyn Bay in 51 with my girl friend later to become my wife. We had a nice day out but on returning had a hell of a long wait at Bromsgrove near to Birmingham and we were in trouble with Lyn's mum for being about an hour late getting back, it was after her having to be in time. Seem to remember the station was on the far side of the common. What station would it have been, lefthand side of Hucknall Road going towards Moor bridge. Dennis I don't want to be a smart alec, but are you sure it was Bromsgrove? I know very well that excursion trains took weird and wonderful routes in them days, but Colwyn Bay to Bulwell Common via Bromsgrove defies imagination. I would have expected the probable route to have started from Llandudno, picking up returning day-trippers at stations (including Colwyn Bay) up to Rhyl, then running without scheduled stops via Crewe, Stoke, Uttoxeter and Egginton Junction to drop off at Derby Friargate, and stations to Basford North, then round the west to north curve to Bulwell Common and stations up the Great Central main line. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nottinghamite 8 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 You could be right, after 60 years my memory is not good, I seem to remember another engine having to come and give us a push. Dennis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Was 'is name Thomas, & was 'e blue? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 You could be right, after 60 years my memory is not good, I seem to remember another engine having to come and give us a push. Dennis Thanks for your memories, Dennis. they are much appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 If you are as sad as me, some of you might like to hear what one of these little 29 seater Bedfords sounded like. Try this for size : That took me back! When I was very young, in the 1950s my dad used to drive buses like that when we lived in Lincolnshire (getting off topic for this Forum!). That clip almost sounded louder than the real thing used to - they had petrol engines, whereas most buses by the time those Bedford were being made (late 1940s) were diesel. When starting cold in the morning and backing out of the garage I remember the engine would make a sort of spitting cough noise, which I'm led to believe was due to water in the carburettor. That gearbox whine was so distinctive! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 I always thought it was Mackemsons, or Makemsons, either way, it had an M in it. It was Makemson's in Bulwell. Their garage was on the corner of Highbury Road and Piccadilly. I forget when they ceased operations - but I think it was before 1980. Last time I was around that area was in 1997 and the building that was their garage was in use for something else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Hi Cliff Ton, you really are an Ace at retrieving old photos and some of these certainly bring back memories: as a child it was quite a treat during the fifties to sit upstairs on the number 22, Hanley Street and take a look down at the Alms Houses opposite. Behind a high, brick wall a long, front garden was beautifully maintained and there were ample trees to give a bit of shade to any of the occupants choosing to sit out on one of the garden seats. These Alms houses were later to become another example of Nottingham's valuable architecture knocked down, rather than considered and preserved for future generations. Whilst travelling home on a packed bus the other evening, it was unfortunate that the bus had to bypass some prospective passengers at their bus stops. I got talking to a couple of ladies of a similar age about the old double deckers: we were trying to work out how many passengers these buses could take when packed; we reckoned about eighty - with the fifteen allowed standing downstairs. Well, in the 1950s the fairly standard number of seats on a double decker was 56, with - officially! - 8 standing downstairs. When the modern rear-engined, front entrance double deckers were first introduced in the early 1960s they had 77 seats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 There were single deck versions also, they have appeared on this forum before were it was wondered if they were dual fuel buses, but the bonnet only covers the electric equipment. https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derbyshire/DCCS000068.jpg https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derbyshire/DCER000516.jpg https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derbyshire/DCCS000069.jpg https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derbyshire/DCCS000067.jpg https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derbyshire/DCCS000005.jpg One give-away is that there is no hole in the lower middle part of the 'radiator' for a starting handle! In fact, motor buses of that era would often run about with the starting handle inserted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Having caught up with this thread here's a couple of photos from me to be going on with: This is NCT AEC Regent V no. 237 on Mansfield Road, Sherwood. And here's a line-up of West Bridgford AECs on South Parade. Sorry if the picture quality is not great. These were taken with my old Instamatic camera (probably around 1968). 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 MerthyrImpI take it you took these photographs? To protect the copyright of your picture there is a warning on our site any content, is our copyright.By placing them on here they legally become part of our site and protected by that copyright notice. This does not effect your own legal copyright of these images. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8547 © Nottstalgia.com.All Rights ReservedConditions of use: The Format concept and design of this site is protected by Copyright Law, no part of it may be redistributed in any form whatsoever without express permission of Nottstalgia.com. Copyright law also extends to the protection of right of ownership of any postings by our members. Nottstalgia members posts are subject to the conditions agreed by members at the time of sign up. Should any person have concerns over any postings or content of this site, they should make contact with an admin via the forum area. Anything found to be outside our terms of use will be removed. Nottstalgia.com accepts no responsibility for members post and will cooperate with any law enforcement or civil entity (within the constraints of British law).Nottstalgia.com reserves the right to seek civil redress in the MINIMUM sum of £5,000 (UK Pounds) for any breach of our copyright. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Thanks for the picture of the Nottingham City Transport number 57 bus, Merthyr Imp. The image brings back a lot of memories as it was the service to my area, Redhill, as a kid, terminating at Redhill School. Brings back a lot of memories. Don't suppose you have an image of the Trent number 62/62 that also passed through our area on the way to Mansfield? Many thanks again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Here's a photo of Trent Leyland Titan PD2 no. 783 on a 63 that's evidently just arrived at Huntingdon Street. It's possibly going out of service as it hasn't gone into the platform for the return journey. I think I've got a photo of a 62 taken at Sherwood, but I'll have to dig it out. I've got boxes of bus and railway photos and slides in the attic, but I've only got some of them scanned into the computer. Any photos I put on this forum are all my own unless I say otherwise. I did say under the previous two: 'taken with my old Instamatic camera'. Did anyone else have one of those? No messing about with threading in roll films, you just dropped in a cartridge. Drawbacks were a slow shutter speed and the square picture format. I can't remember if you could get black and white film for them, but I only used colour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Thanks again MT, that's great. I can just about remember those models on that route and more particularly the buses that superseded them with the flat (?) front and the door at the front. Cheers, nice memories. There used to be a ghost story surrounding one of those Trent 62 buses at my local bus stop: Bus Catcher Location: Nottingham - Outside Redhill Cemetery, Mansfield Road, ArnoldType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: A slight retelling of the phantom hitchhiker myth, it is reported that a man waiting outside the cemetery caught a bus late one night. He walked past the conductor and climbed to the top deck. When the conductor followed him up, he was nowhere to be seen. http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/hotspots/nottingham.php?pageNum_paradata=1&totalRows_paradata=65 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Yep, the 57 was the bus of my childhood too - caught on Redhill Road at the end of Lodge Farm Lane for a trip into the city! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 The 126 Instamatic had both b&w and colour cassettes. As a kid, my Instamatic holiday snaps were always in b&w. They were cheaper to process at the chemists. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 What was the bus that traveled from the city via Wilford Road and terminated at 'Halfpenny Bridge'? What was its route from the city and the city stop to catch it. Was it Market Square? I think it went to the Wells Road somewhere? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 What was the bus that traveled from the city via Wilford Road and terminated at 'Halfpenny Bridge'? What was its route from the city and the city stop to catch it. Was it Market Square? I think it went to the Wells Road somewhere? 40 / 47 ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 wasent the building behind the 63 bus a cafealso one on opposit side of huntingdon st Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 What was the bus that traveled from the city via Wilford Road and terminated at 'Halfpenny Bridge'? What was its route from the city and the city stop to catch it. Was it Market Square? I think it went to the Wells Road somewhere? Yes, it was the 40. Went from St Anns to Wilford Toll Bridge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Yes I remember now, the 40. What was its route through the city? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Follow the appropriate green line http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7151&hl=routes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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