Nottingham Suburban Railway bridge over Trent Lane

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 15 Apr 2011

The last addition, in 1889, to the complex railway infrastructure at Trent Lane was the Nottingham Suburban Railway, which left and joined the Great Northern at Trent Lane Junction. Southbound Suburban Railway trains from Daybrook crossed the Midland’s Lincoln and the GNR’s Grantham lines on girder bridges east of Trent Lane before dropping down to cross it on this arched blue-brick bridge, the most substantial surviving relic of the NSR, which lost its passenger service in 1916. The NSR then re-crossed the Lincoln line on a truss girder bridge before continuing to London Road; the girder bridge sat on the abutment on the left of the picture, behind the lamp post. The NSR continued to serve brickworks at Mapperley and Thorneywood until 1951; those trains used the northern junction at Daybrook as this southern section had been abandoned after being damaged by bombing in 1941. In Sneinton little remains of the Great Northern and the NSR apart from London Road Station (now a health club) and the derelict goods warehouses near it, the remains of the bridges at Meadow Lane and the bridge and abutments here. See Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image] and others.

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