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Chase Park, Daleside Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4GT

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 blue brick abutment and wing wall once supported the bowstring girder bridge and embankment which carried Nottingham-bound trains on the Nottingham Suburban Railway across the Great Northern Railway Grantham line. The NSR line swung west on a 1 in 48 downward gradient and crossed the Midland line at Trent Lane before joining the GNR at Trent Lane Junction. This southern end of the NSR (1889-1951) was abandoned after wartime bomb damage to the embankment between Trent Lane and Colwick Road. Image] shows the GNR line, looking eastwards towards here.

I have no idea why these houses, which look like typically 50s/60s semis, should be so named: a name that sounds as though it should be attached to a Victorian or Edwardian building. The houses look a little forlorn, standing as they do on a very busy road surrounded on all sides by industry.

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 through Sneinton from Manvers Street to Daleside Road East.

An unusual position for a chimney.

A train from Lincoln approaching the relatively new footbridge at Trent Lane, passing the backs of houses on Whittier Road. The wooded hillside in the background is Colwick Woods.

The lines to Lincoln and Grantham divide at Netherfield. In the distance the tower block on Colwick Road is outlined against Colwick Woods. A 1950s childhood memory of going on the train to see an aunt at Rolleston is of the tin baths hanging by the back doors of the houses on Whittier Road, on the left. Image] is a view in this direction from the foot crossing the new bridge has superseded.

Like nearby Mafeking Street, its name commemorates the Boer War.