Cinderhill Tram Stop - 2

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 19 May 2010

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.

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