All that remains of Carrington railway station

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Apr 2011

Clarendon Park is built on the filled-in site of Carrington Station, which stood between Mansfield Road and Sherwood Rise Tunnels on the Great Central line from Nottingham Victoria. The platforms were about 25ft below the present ground level, to the left of the camera position. The station was only open to passengers from 1899-1928 (trams were a more convenient way to and from the city), but its derelict remains were a good place for truanting schoolboys to go trainspotting until the line closed in 1968. The south portal of Sherwood Rise Tunnel was under where the cars in the centre of picture are parked; the red-brick wall to their left, belonging to a house on Clumber Avenue, was the boundary of the railway land, as was the railway-owned blue-brick wall immediately in front of the camera, now the boundary of the New (Clarendon) College site. For an idea of Carrington Station nearly 50 years before, see Image

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