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Teatime in the park. Picture by Tom.
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©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield and Manchester ran straight ahead - the right wall of the modern factory is parallel to the former tracks. Bagthorpe East curve, carrying Derby Friargate trains to Basford North and on to Kimberley and Ilkeston, passed to the left of this building, where the bushes are. Behind the camera the embankment - 40ft high where it crossed the ring road - has been levelled and the houses of Tunstall Drive built. For more about the railway network in these parts, see [[[2477369]]], [[[2477316]]], [[[2475354]]] and others.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking through one of the avenues of mature lime trees.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>The trees to the right are growing on the remains of the Great Central Railway embankment. Beyond them, the embankment - 40ft high where the railway crossed Valley Road on its way south to Nottingham Victoria - has been levelled and the houses of Tunstall Drive built. Fenton Road follows the course of Bagthorpe East Curve, which brought trains from the Great Northern Derby Friargate line to join the GC at Bagthorpe Junction (which was just north of Valley Road bridge, way above the roofs of the present houses, and those on Harmston Rise and Heatherley Avenue, whose alignments follow the bottom of the former embankment). In railway days the downward slope straight ahead was a single railway line rising to meet the main line. To the right of the houses in the distance on the left of the picture, the railway passed through the cutting in the sandstone ridge shown in my [[[2388314]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Tunstall Drive is built where the Great Central Railway main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield and Manchester once ran - on the top of an embankment in the region of 40ft above the present road level. The trees in the background grow on the slope of the truncated embankment and give an idea of how wide the earthworks were. Bagthorpe Junction and its signal box once stood roughly where I stood to take this picture, but a long way above my head. The scene at the top of what remains of the embankment is shown in [[[2477388]]], and for more about the railway network in these parts, see [[[2477369]]], [[[2477316]]], [[[2475354]]] and others.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>These sloping gardens occupy what was once a railway embankment: Bagthorpe West Curve, which took Derby-bound trains from Bagthorpe Junction, half a mile to the south on the Great Central main line, to Basford North and then west to Kimberley and Ilkeston. There were carriage sidings, where spare coaches were stabled, to the left, between the Derby line and the Great Central main line, which crossed Arnold Road just to the north. [[[2475354]]] is the view in the opposite direction, towards Arnold Road. It is well worth consulting old OS maps to get an idea of how much railway infrastructure there once was here - all now landscaped away.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Two such avenues cross at right angles; this one runs NW-SE
©Alan Murray-Rust
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This landscaped area and children's playground, serving the houses on Roman Drive, Gothic Close and Script Drive, is built on land once occupied by the Great Northern Nottingham to Derby Friargate railway, which crossed Arnold Road behind the camera. The street names recall the Barlock Typewriter Company, whose factory was on - and gave its name to - nearby Barlock Road.
©John Sutton
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This grassy knoll, in a children's play area, is on the reclaimed and landscaped site of Bagthorpe West Curve, which led Great Northern Derby-bound trains from Bagthorpe Junction to Basford North, then west through Kimberley and Ilkeston. Carriage sidings, where spare coaches were stabled, were to the right and behind the camera and the Great Central main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield and Manchester a little further to the right. The GNR's lattice bridge across Arnold Road (which is behind the line of bushes) was where the trees in the centre are, and beyond it the line curved to the left behind where the industrial unit now stands to Basford East Junction, subject of Ben Brooksbanks's [[[2334891]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.4km<br/>To Nottinghamians an off-licence is a beer-off. On this one the Home Brewery style of the 1960s, with Robin Hood silhouette on a barrel-shaped background, rather remarkably survives intact. The earlier style, on pubs and off-licences http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1513926 , simply featured the words Home Ales, in green or black on a cream background. Sometimes the brewery's Apollo mineral waters ("pop") were also advertised - see the off-licence on Park Lane nearby: [[[2400192]]].
©John Sutton
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©JThomas
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©Alan Murray-Rust

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