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Victoria Business Park, Netherfield, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 2PE

For fuller information see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709023 . Colwick locomotive shed occupied the left hand half of the photograph with the extensive marshalling yards ahead and to the right of the view.

At this point, the new Loop Road continues straight on, while the old Loop Road bears left towards Gedling. The newer road was built to bypass the very narrow part of Burton Road that is constricted by a railway bridge crossing it just east of Shearing Hill.

View WNW from the footbridge over the line to the adjoining ex-LNW locomotive shed, to the western part of the vast ex-LNER Colwick Yards and towards Gedling etc. on the Nottingham Avoiding Line. The signalbox is Locomotive Junction, the great ex-GNR Locomotive Depot, with an allocation of over 200 engines is off to the left. It was a very difficult complex to access from public roads. My car is in the foreground. Fifty years ago, this was a very major railway centre, dealing with an immense freight traffic, especially coal, but all has long since gone in the modern age.

Situated on the eastern edge of Netherfield. Access is from Great Northern Way (foreground), a small commemoration of the previous use of this site for a locomotive shed and marshalling yards built by the Great Northern Railway (see Image).

One of a set of banners http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709018 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709016 installed along Victoria Road commemorating Colwick locomotive shed which closed in 1970. The shed was one of the largest in the UK, with an allocation at its maximum of around 200 steam locomotives. It was attached to the extensive marshalling sidings where trains from collieries in the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire area were formed into larger trains for onward movement to London in particular. The banners mark the passage from the original Great Northern Railway, through the London and North Eastern Railway and finally British Railways. This banner features the coaling plant which was a local landmark. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709023 for location.

Recording the opening of the final stage of the Colwick bypass road.

Looking along Victoria Road showing the banners http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709016 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709018 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709020 commemorating Colwick locomotive shed which closed in 1970. The shed was one of the largest in the UK, with an allocation at its maximum of around 200 steam locomotives. It was attached to the extensive marshalling sidings where trains from collieries in the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire area were formed into larger trains for onward movement to London in particular. The banners mark the passage from the original Great Northern Railway, through the London and North Eastern Railway and finally British Railways. The shed itself was located on the right of the road where Great Northern Way now stands.

One of a set of banners http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709016 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709020 installed along Victoria Road commemorating Colwick locomotive shed which closed in 1970. The shed was one of the largest in the UK, with an allocation at its maximum of around 200 steam locomotives. It was attached to the extensive marshalling sidings where trains from collieries in the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire area were formed into larger trains for onward movement to London in particular. The banners mark the passage from the original Great Northern Railway, through the London and North Eastern Railway and finally British Railways. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709023 for location.

Until the 1960s the area to the right, now an estate of industrial and retail units, was the site of the huge Colwick Engine Shed (coded 38A and latterly 40E), which supplied engines for the coal trains from the Leen Valley and Derbyshire coalfields, passenger tank engines for local services from Nottingham Victoria, shunters for the immense Colwick Yards (see Ben Brooksbank's Image]) and engines to haul holiday specials to Skeggy and Mablethorpe. Netherfield mushroomed round the shed and yard in the last quarter of the 19th century, a self-contained railway town on the eastern edge of Nottingham. It was strange to be here for the first time since, almost fifty years ago, I last sneaked round 40E with a schoolfriend, terrified that we would be caught by the shedmaster.