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Drummond Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 2PR

The house at this end of the terrace appears to have been a corner shop in the past.

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

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).

Built by the Great Northern Railway where its busy Derbyshire Extension (The Back Line) crossed Netherfield Lane (now Victoria Road). There was also a signal box here, to the left of the house, which lasted until the 1980s, when The Back Line existed only to serve Gedling Colliery.

A view towards where the Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extension (The Back Line) crossed - the white building on the right-hand side of the road was once the crossing-keeper's house. The red-brick building on the right was built as the railwaymen's institute. The huge Colwick engine shed and marshalling yards stretched north and east to the right (see Ben Brooksbank's Image] for a flavour of what was here). The site behind the grey security fence on the right was once occupied by Traffic Terrace, one of two rows of houses built by the railway company either side of the engine shed frontage.

One of a set of banners http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709018 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.

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.

Built by the Great Northern Railway where its busy Derbyshire Extension (The Back Line) crossed Netherfield Lane (now Victoria Road). There was also a signal box here (offstage right) which lasted until the 1980s, when The Back Line existed only to serve Gedling Colliery.