The Back Line
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Back Line by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
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The Back Line
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 18 May 2010
Now a footpath, this was once the Great Northern Railway line from Colwick to Derby, always known as The Back Line, busy carrying coal from the Erewash Valley and occasional Basford (via Gedling) local passenger trains, which began their journeys north by leaving from the south end of Nottingham Victoria and taking the Grantham line at Weekday Cross Junction (where the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery now is) before heading north then west from Netherfield & Colwick. The line closed east of Daybrook in April 1960 when Mapperley Tunnel, made unsafe by colliery subsidence, was deemed uneconomical to repair and maintain. Coal and empty ore trains were then diverted to the Great Central line through Victoria Station and reached Colwick from the west. The bridge carrying Thackerays Lane is beyond the cyclist.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.995017
Longitude
-1.131953