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Bendigo Lane, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4EH

This is a very dull photograph of interest only to railway enthusiasts. Behind the camera Daleside Road East, the A612 to Southwell, is a road built on the course of an abandoned section of the Great Northern Railway line to Grantham. The bushes straight ahead are growing on the part of the trackbed which is now a footpath (see Image], Image] and others).

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

After the closure of Nottingham Victoria Station in 1966 the parts of the Great Northern Railway Grantham line through Sneinton to Netherfield were abandoned. Since then, Grantham trains have used the Midland route as far as Netherfield, where the Lincoln and Grantham lines part. The GNR trackbed is now a footpath from through Sneinton from Manvers Street to Daleside Road East. This is a view towards Nottingham, with the incinerator chimney just visible in the distance above the path.

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.