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Osmaston Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 5AL

Looking downstream, Sandiacre to the right. The river forms the boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

The sign welcoming people to Sandiacre marks the boundary between the towns of Stapleford and Sandiacre, the boroughs of Broxtowe and Erewash, and the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. It is located next to the parapet of the small bridge that carries Station Road over the River Erewash; therefore it appears that the Derbyshire sign on the railway bridge (see Image) was jumping the gun rather.

There is a queue of traffic for the lights on the junction which is in the direction the vehicles are facing.

The B5010 Road pictured here at the junction with Mark Street.

View westward to goods yard of this station just north of Toton Yard. No. 47551 was built 1928 as No. 16634 and withdrawn 2/63.

View northward, towards Chesterfield etc. on the ex-Midland main Erewash Valley line. (See also Image The Class J mineral is one of countless coal trains which passed through here for Toton Yard just to the south. The locomotive is Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48185 (built 4/42, withdrawn 2/67). (Of the 663 8Fs, all but about 120 were built during World War Two - at many different Railway Works).

A view of Derby Road as it rises to cross the Erewash Valley railway line and the River Erewash on a bridge. The river forms the county boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, hence the sign on the bridge.

View northward, towards Chesterfield; ex-Midland Erewash Valley main line Trent - Chesterfield. It was the constant output of coal from the many collieries in the North Midlands Area that together with other freight traffic on the North-South axis made the Erewash Valley line so extremely busy. The coal trains were assembled at the great Toton Marshalling Yard, then distributed south and west from there. This train is coming under the B5010 (formerly A52) bridge (before the new A52(T) was built) and is about to enter Toton Yard, which began immediately south of Stapleford & Sandiacre Station (closed 2/1/67). It is headed by ex-WD 2-8-0 No. 90612, which was built in 1/44 as No. 7468 (later 77468), loaned to the LNER (at Colwick) until 12/44 when it was shipped to France: it worked in Belgium and was repatriated in 6/46, stored at Northampton LMS, then in 1/47 was loaned to the LNER (at Annesley) and remained on BR (ER) (as No. 90612) until withdrawn in 8/64.