Robert Shaw Playing Field
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Robert Shaw Playing Field
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Sep 2023
In the early 1960s this was a good place to hang out with schoolfriends. A lot of trees have grown since then, obscuring the railway line to Mansfield and Worksop straight ahead and the line from Radford to Trowell Junction and the Erewash Valley Line to the right. Industrial units and student flats now occupy Radford sidings and goods yard on the other side of the Mansfield line, along which countless coal trains from the Leen Valley pits passed. The Waverley Express to and from Edinburgh via the Settle & Carlisle, which so excited small boys, no longer uses the route to Trowell.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.958986
Longitude
-1.185076