Recent content by Jimbob_Notts

Likewise. I love spawning a monster here and there! :p

I'd run up to the Borders to catch a Waverley Route train!

Beautiful line, sorely missed. Hopefully wont be too long before it's fully reinstated. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- If they were to reopen this line, and perhaps that along the Tweed Valley + Peebles circular.. It'd just about make up for the sadness I feel re: the GCR ;-)

Just for reference... I'm aware that Beeching was just symptomatic of Marples and the gov't at the time, but when I created my profile here, Beeching was the only name I could think of! I hate them all ;-)

Hi Cowley, yes I agree.. I've seen a few of the old maps and you're right, the change is stark to say the least! Especially along what is now the ring road / Vernon Road area. You're right in inferring that Nottingham is not alone in losing a massive amount of it's railway infrastructure...

Funny you should mention that! I went to school near to Wood Lane in Gedling, over which the old GNR runs, and close the site of the old Gedling station. For years I've just thought that this was solely the mineral railway which it became, without realising that it was actually the GNR route...

That's very true.. I've been driving around the area from Sherwood Rise / Nottingham Road, Perry Road (which runs over the old bridge in my original post), and up into Bulwell and Top Valley... etc. It's amazing, the extent of the destruction of the old route(s), with the exception of an old...

Hi all, thanks for the nice responses! & for the welcome to the forums :) Regarding the GCR being rebuilt now should HS2 fail,, if only! Anything to see the removal of those crusty Victoria flats!! However, the resulting housing crisis be a bit extreme given the amount of residential...

Hello! I've just joined (waves), and I've got something I'd really like to get off my chest! I'm not particularly old -born 1983- but ever since I can remember I've always been fascinated by the railways.. I think steam train gauges were the first thing I ever learnt as a kid.. I also grew...