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William Booth Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4EG

Until the late 1970s, City Transport buses terminated at this point, which had been the City boundary. The turnround was built when trolleybuses replaced the trams, which had also run to this point, in the mid 1930s. Beyond this point services were provided by the Trent Motor Traction Company (today's Trent-Barton), but they were not allowed to carry local passengers inside the City area. Changes in regulations, followed by complete deregulation, meant a complete restructuring of services and a terminus at this location became superfluous. It has not now been used for more than 20 years.

Just the other side of the trees in the centre of the picture is the old bus terminus described here Image

This turning circle was used initially by trolleybuses, and later by motorbuses, as the terminus of the Colwick Road route, which continued across Nottingham city centre to Bulwell Hall (with alternate journeys diverted to serve Rise Park when that estate was constructed). For many years now, the route serving Colwick Road has continued to Gedling via Netherfield, but this turning circle still sees use when the level crossing just out of frame to the right is closed and a shuttle bus is run to serve Colwick Road. Colwick Woods nature reserve provides the backdrop.

Looking in the direction of Nottingham Station and the Colwick Woods Court tower block.

The terminus initially of Corporation trams and later trolleybuses and motor buses at the City boundary, it ceased to be used when co-ordinated services between the Corporation and Trent Motor Traction were introduced in the early 1980s.

The Midland Railway Crossing Keeper's House is on the left, deeply shadowed on a sunny July morning. The picture was taken from the footpath which climbs through Colwick Woods.

Next to the Colwick Road level crossing

Colwick Crossing is one of several level crossings on the former Midland Railway line east from Nottingham. Colwick Road, which crosses the railway here, is no longer a main road as such, this area having been bypassed to the south by Daleside Road. Therefore, the procession of passenger trains to and from Lincoln, Skegness, and Norwich, together with freight trains to and from south Humberside, causes relatively little traffic congestion here.