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Daleside Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4DH

The bridge in the middle distance is redundant; it probably used to carry a spur line to the main railway line, which runs the other side of the bridge.

According to an article in the Nottingham Post (21/12/2025), it was built as a mainstream school ('Waterside Primary Academy'), intended to serve an expanding residential area, but due to low pupil numbers the City Council has converted the school to accommodate children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

The last addition, in 1889, to the complex railway infrastructure at Trent Lane was the Nottingham Suburban Railway, which left and joined the Great Northern at Trent Lane Junction. Southbound Suburban Railway trains from Daybrook crossed the Midland’s Lincoln and the GNR’s Grantham lines on girder bridges east of Trent Lane before dropping down to cross it on this arched blue-brick bridge, the most substantial surviving relic of the NSR, which lost its passenger service in 1916. The NSR then re-crossed the Lincoln line on a truss girder bridge before continuing to London Road; the girder bridge sat on the abutment on the left of the picture, behind the lamp post. The NSR continued to serve brickworks at Mapperley and Thorneywood until 1951; those trains used the northern junction at Daybrook as this southern section had been abandoned after being damaged by bombing in 1941. In Sneinton little remains of the Great Northern and the NSR apart from London Road Station (now a health club) and the derelict goods warehouses near it, the remains of the bridges at Meadow Lane and the bridge and abutments here. See Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image] and others.

A food wholesaler.

A view from the ramp up to the new footbridge over the former Midland Railway line to Lincoln, now used by all eastbound trains leaving Nottingham. For more about the NSR bridge and other railway remains at Trent Lane, see Image

The blue-brick abutment to the right of the train is one of the remains of the Nottingham Suburban Railway's Bridge No 1. The larger stone-and-brick abutment covered with idiot scribblings once supported the huge girder bridge which carried the Great Northern Nottingham to Grantham line over the Midland Railway's Lincoln line. All eastbound trains now use the Midland route as far as Netherfield, where the Lincoln and Grantham lines part.

The name suggests this was a desirable Victorian residence. But early 20th century maps show it was a lodge or manager's house associated with the city's sewage pumping station (a building later used, according to a 1954 map, as a sausage casings factory).

The foot crossing at Trent Lane is to be replaced by a footbridge as part of the reconfiguration and resignalling of Nottingham Midland Station and its approaches. Straight ahead is the southern abutment of the girder bridge which once carried the Great Northern Railway line from Grantham to Nottingham (shown from another angle in Image]). This picture was taken from under the old Nottingham Suburban Railway bridge (see Image]), part of whose blue-brick arch and wing wall show on the right. The crossing and associated footpaths are currently closed - determined pedestrians are diverted to Meadow Lane Level Crossing.

The foot crossing is to be replaced by a footbridge as part of the reconfiguration and resignalling of Nottingham Midland Station and its approaches. Straight ahead is the northern abutment of the bridge which once carried the Great Northern Railway line from Grantham to Nottingham (shown from other angles in Image] and Image]). The crossing and associated footpaths are currently closed - determined pedestrians are diverted to Meadow Lane Level Crossing.