Nottingham - NG5 (Basford)
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Nottingham - NG5 (Basford)
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 23 May 2012
A former railway building on Haydn Rd, almost (but not quite) at the junction with Camelot Avenue, New Basford. This property, now known as Station House, was previously situated at the approach to New Basford station. The station was one on the Great Central Railway main line. It was opened when the line did in 1899 and was also used by trains to/from Ilkeston, Derby, Uttoxeter & Stafford on the Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension of the Great Northern Railway. The station itself (i.e. not this building) was of the "island" type with a central 'pad' with its platforms situated between the up and down lines. In this case however, the station was also raised up on an embankment and therefore the platforms had to be accessed from Haydn Road via an ancillary passageway/roadway that passed beneath the lines. This section of the line closed completely on 25 March 1968.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.978257
Longitude
-1.164012