Colwick Yard Complex
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Colwick Yard Complex
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 27 Mar 1956
View WNW from the footbridge over the line to the adjoining ex-LNW locomotive shed, to the western part of the vast ex-LNER Colwick Yards and towards Gedling etc. on the Nottingham Avoiding Line. The signalbox is Locomotive Junction, the great ex-GNR Locomotive Depot, with an allocation of over 200 engines is off to the left. It was a very difficult complex to access from public roads. My car is in the foreground. Fifty years ago, this was a very major railway centre, dealing with an immense freight traffic, especially coal, but all has long since gone in the modern age.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.961078
Longitude
-1.066235