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SK5543 : Fenton Road : railway remains

taken 14 years ago, near to Bulwell, Nottingham, England

Fenton Road : railway remains
Fenton Road : railway remains
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 SK5543 : North from Perry Road Bridge, 1963.

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SK5543, 166 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
John Sutton   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 21 June, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 25 June, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5572 4365 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:59.2379N 1:10.2861W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5570 4369
View Direction
South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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