A Clifton-bound tram approaching Cinderhill
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A Clifton-bound tram approaching Cinderhill
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 11 Jun 2016
The Highbury Vale to Phoenix Park branch of the Nottingham tram system is built on the formation of the Midland Railway Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery Branch, which ran from a junction with the Midland's Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop line where the Highbury Vale tram stop now is. The Midland line ran parallel to (and in the shadow of) the Great Northern Derbyshire Extension line to Derby, which ran on tall embankments and viaducts - now completely gone - between Cinderhill and Basford North. This is Great Northern Bridge No 3 carrying Cinderhill Road. Behind and to the right of the camera, where there are now steps and a zig-zag pedestrian ramp, there was once a junction where the GNR Babbington Colliery branch joined the Midland. The GNR cutting has been filled in, but the parapets of its Bridge No 2, on Bagnall Road, survive.
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