Great Northern Railway arches, Popham Street
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Great Northern Railway arches, Popham Street
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Aug 2010
From 1900, when services were transferred from London Road to the new Victoria Station, Grantham line trains snaked above Sneinton on a series of brick arches and bridges from Weekday Cross Junction – now the site of the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery – to London Road and Trent Lane Junction. Apart from the bridge abutments either side of the canal east of London Road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1891197 , the only remains of this line are a set of blue-brick arches between Maltmill Lane and Popham Street. This line was last used, for freight traffic, in 1974 and all other traces of it have now disappeared. High Pavement Unitarian Chapel - now a bar - is behind the Cornish Engineering factory on the right. For the other end of what remains, see Image
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Image Location
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52.94989
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-1.144317