Netherfield: near where Colwick Engine Shed once stood
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Netherfield: near where Colwick Engine Shed once stood
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 22 Aug 2013
Until the 1960s the area to the right, now an estate of industrial and retail units, was the site of the huge Colwick Engine Shed (coded 38A and latterly 40E), which supplied engines for the coal trains from the Leen Valley and Derbyshire coalfields, passenger tank engines for local services from Nottingham Victoria, shunters for the immense Colwick Yards (see Ben Brooksbank's Image]) and engines to haul holiday specials to Skeggy and Mablethorpe. Netherfield mushroomed round the shed and yard in the last quarter of the 19th century, a self-contained railway town on the eastern edge of Nottingham. It was strange to be here for the first time since, almost fifty years ago, I last sneaked round 40E with a schoolfriend, terrified that we would be caught by the shedmaster.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.961829
Longitude
-1.070238