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Phoenix Business Park. On site of Babbington Colliery which when it closed in 1986 was the oldest working mine in Nottinghamshire.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>A display that has steadily grown over the past few years, attracting visitors to this small cul-de-sac in the Cinderhill area. Donations are collected for a local charity.
©Katy Walters
Dist:0.3km<br/>Entrance off Tilbury Rise.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This is slotted between the old Nottingham Road (seen here) and the A610 Nuthall Bypass.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking north from the junction with Dulverton Vale.
©David Lally
Dist:0.3km<br/>Although the sign says "country park", this is just a bridleway leading to the park about 7-800 metres away.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>All boarded up in the winter sun.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>At the junction of Bells Lane and Dulverton Vale.
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>All 15 of the initial trams supplied for the Nottingham tram system are to this design. They are very much built with rush hour traffic in mind, so there is far more room for standing passengers than seated. This is typical of all modern generation UK trams. If extension plans are fulfilled, the fleet is expected to double in size. For more details of these vehicles: [[1251383]]
©L S Wilson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Highbury Vale to Phoenix Park branch of the Nottingham tram system is built on the formation of the Midland Railway Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery railway, which ran from a junction with the Midland's Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop line where the Highbury Vale tram stop now is. The Midland line ran parallel to (and in the shadow of) the Great Northern Derbyshire Extension line to Derby, which ran on tall embankments and viaducts - of which no traces remain - between Cinderhill and Basford North. This view shows Great Northern Bridge No 3, which carried the Cinderhill to Bulwell road over the lines leading to the colliery sidings. Behind the camera and to the right, where there are now steps and a zig-zag pedestrian ramp, the Great Northern Babbington Colliery line (from its own Babbington Junction) came in to join the Midland here. The GNR cutting has been filled in, but the parapets of GNR Bridge No 2, on Bagnall Road, survive. The Midland Railway's Cinderhill Junction signal box (a standard timber type with a hipped roof) stood roughly where I stood to take this photograph.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Tram terminus and the entrance to the Park and Ride site
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km<br/>Tram No. 206 is named "Angela Alcock" as a tribute to an Oxfam volunteer, who has collected thousands of pounds for the charity. The tram is waiting at the Phoenix Park terminus before travelling to Station Street via the city centre. At Phoenix Park there is a very large park & ride facility.
©L S Wilson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Highbury Vale to Phoenix Park branch of the Nottingham tram system is built on the formation of the Midland Railway Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery Branch, which ran from a junction with the Midland's Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop line where the Highbury Vale tram stop now is. The Midland line ran parallel to (and in the shadow of) the Great Northern Derbyshire Extension line to Derby, which ran on tall embankments and viaducts - now completely gone - between Cinderhill and Basford North. This view is taken from the Midland Railway bridge carrying Bagnall Road, looking across the tram stop towards Great Northern Bridge No 3, which carried the Cinderhill to Bulwell road over the lines leading to the colliery sidings. To the right of here, where there are now steps and a zig-zag pedestrian ramp, there was once a railway junction where the Great Northern Babbington Colliery line joined the Midland. The GNR cutting has been filled in, but the parapets of GNR Bridge No 2, on Bagnall Road, survive.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.4km<br/>At the roundabout on Millennium Way at Phoenix Park. The main name plate is now missing but the remaining one states that the business park was opened on 2nd December 1994. It was built on the site of Babbington Colliery, which, when it closed in 1986, was the oldest working colliery in Nottinghamshire. It reached a peak output of 864,000 tons in 1968.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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