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Claremont Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1BH

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35167.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the tall brick wall pier about 2m right of the entrance to this former day care centre.

This uninspired building is the home of the Federation House Social Club. Seen from Claremont Road.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35168.

The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham and in the city much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow. After passing through a deep cutting in the sandstone south of New Basford station, southbound trains entered the 665-yard Sherwood Rise Tunnel, the top of whose north portal is shown here. The cutting has been filled in and the tunnel mouth sealed: the railway track was getting on for twenty feet below the current ground level. The sheer side of the cutting through the soft Lenton sandstone is clearly shown on the left of the picture. After leaving Sherwood Rise Tunnel, steam-engine crews had only a 100-yard respite at Carrington before the line entered the sulphurous 1,189-yard Mansfield Road Tunnel, which took trains to Nottingham Victoria station. See Image] and Image

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm42606

There is an OS benchmark Image on the Falcon Street wall to right of the road name sign

A glimpse through the trees of the top of the north portal of Sherwood Rise tunnel, constructed as part of the Great Central Railway's London Extension in the late 1890s. The ground has been built up considerably here since the railway closed, and today forms a small open space beyond the south end of Camelot Avenue.

The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow. After passing through a deep cutting in the sandstone south of New Basford station, southbound trains entered the 665-yard Sherwood Rise Tunnel (ahead). The cutting has been filled in: the railway track was getting on for twenty feet below the current ground level. The sheer side of the cutting through the Lenton sandstone is clearly shown on the left of the picture. See Image] and Image After leaving Sherwood Rise Tunnel, steam-engine crews had only a 100-yard respite at Carrington before the line entered the sulphurous 1,189-yard Mansfield Road Tunnel, which took trains to Nottingham Victoria station.