Nottingham Victoria Station and Tunnel, with train
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Nottingham Victoria Station and Tunnel, with train
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 14 Mar 1959
View southward, towards Leicester and London, also Grantham etc.; ex-Great Central main line, Sheffield Victoria - London Marylebone, also ex-Great Northern Derby - Grantham line. Note the elaborate footbridge, which linked the two main islands at this south end, then the South Signalbox virtually underneath the massive Parliament Street Bridge and the Tunnel bore, immediately beyond which the Grantham line bore off left. The train, heading south behind Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44912, is a Sheffield Victoria to Poole express, which will leave the London line at Woodford Halse for Banbury, thence Oxford, Didcot, Reading West, Basingstoke, Southampton and Bournemouth.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.955841
Longitude
-1.146879