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Poplar Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1DJ

It is hard to believe there was once a main line railway here. Camelot Avenue is built on the site of the passenger and goods stations at New Basford. The goods sidings were to the left and the island-platform passenger station straight ahead. 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 the 665-yard Sherwood Rise Tunnel northbound trains entered a deep cutting in the sandstone (behind the camera). The cutting has now been filled in - see Image

The footpath that commences at the end of this cul-de-sac (Camelot Avenue) leads to a sandstone cutting that previously carried the Great Central Railway main line towards New Basford station. The station was situated half a mile or so behind the photographer, off Haydn Road. The railway line, having come out of the Sherwood Rise tunnel, used to run to the left of these houses. The station itself (no longer in existence) was of the "island" type with the central ‘pad’ and its platforms located between the up and the down tracks. In this case however, the former station was apparently situated on a raised embankment, meaning that the station was accessed from a subterranean roadway or passageway off Haydn Road that passed beneath the lines. This section of the line closed completely on 25 March 1968

The north end of the footpath seen in Image leads initially from the end of Camelot Avenue past the southernmost houses reached from that road to a gate that gives access to a small open space.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35163.

The turning facility at the south end of Camelot Avenue, New Basford. The road ends just beyond the further of the two parked cars.

Beyond the south end of Camelot Avenue in New Basford, a footpath leads into a small open space (see Image).

Looking south along Camelot Avenue, which was built on part of the site of New Basford railway station after the demolition of the embankment that carried the railway at this point.

This footpath at the end of Camelot Avenue (a cul-de-sac), that commences behind the photographer, leads into this meadow that now exists within the walls of this sandstone-walled former railway cutting. When the Great Central Railway Company ran trains through here (until the late 60s) this meadow did not exist, indeed the cutting was even deeper than it is now, before it was substantially filled in and it became the public green space that it now is.

It is hard to believe that this was once the site of a main line railway. Camelot Avenue is built on the site of the station and goods yard of New Basford station. Famous Nottingham railway photographers such as Gordon Hepburn and Tom Boustead stood approximately where I stood to take this snap to take their pictures of trains bursting out of Sherwood Rise Tunnel on the uphill slog from Nottingham Victoria. The remains of the tunnel are hidden in the trees directly ahead - see Image 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.

Residential backwater off Haydn Road.