Melbourne Park: poplars which once bordered a railway
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Melbourne Park: poplars which once bordered a railway
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 11 May 2010
This view, from near the Newlyn Gardens entrance to the park, shows what in my childhood in the 1950s was the shunting neck of the National Coal Board railway line which connected Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery with the sidings at the Nuthall Road landsale wharf (some way behind the camera). This railway had originally been built by Thomas North, the colliery owner, to connect Babbington to the Nottingham Canal, due south at Wollaton Road, and later the Midland Railway line from Radford to Trowell at Babbington Sidings, near where Western Boulevard bridge now stands. The line south of Melbourne Park had been long abandoned (since the building of Western Boulevard in the 1930s) by the time I watched a little green locomotive named Peter shunting NCB East Midlands Division No 6 Area wagons, which were black with white lettering and bright yellow corner ironwork.
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