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Wadham Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 4JB

Seen from the air over Sherwood, looking northeast towards Woodborough. The pale patch in the forest towards top right is HM Prison Lowdham Grange.

Now a footpath, this was once the Great Northern Railway line from Colwick to Derby, always known as The Back Line, busy carrying coal from the Erewash Valley and occasional Basford (via Gedling) local passenger trains, which began their journeys north by leaving from the south end of Nottingham Victoria and taking the Grantham line at Weekday Cross Junction (where the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery now is) before heading north then west from Netherfield & Colwick. The line closed east of Daybrook in April 1960 when Mapperley Tunnel, made unsafe by colliery subsidence, was deemed uneconomical to repair and maintain. Coal and empty ore trains were then diverted to the Great Central line through Victoria Station and reached Colwick from the west. The bridge carrying Thackerays Lane is beyond the cyclist.

This was the old Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby via Ilkeston. It was a roundabout route for passengers, but resulted from the fundamental need for the carriage of coal from the Nottas and Derby coalfield. Today the railway alignment carries a footpath, seen here from the bridge carrying Thackerays Lane.

A view of a road bridge that carries Arnot Vale Road across the former Great Northern Railway (Derbyshire Extension) track bed, now a footpath and cycle route through Arnot Hill Park. This bridge marks the changeover point between Thrackeray's Lane and Arnot Hill Road. Behind the photographer's right shoulder is the easterly-most entrance into Arnot Hill Park.

Thackeray's Lane crosses the line of the old Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby via Ilkeston. This was a roundabout route for passengers, but resulted from the fundamental need for the carriage of coal from the Nottas and Derby coalfield. Today the railway alignment carries a footpath under the bridge.

Recreating this 'First' for the square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18589

Once inside this park's most easterly entrance/exit - reached from Arnot Hill Road - a curved, winding south-westerly path brings visitors to this plateau that now hosts several skateboarding hollows. On the left of this area, through a former railway cutting is the track-bed of the former Great Northern Railway Line's Derbyshire Extension hosting a footpath and cycle-route. The largest part of the park is to be found on the right, albeit at a lower level, and straight ahead - a mile away as the crow flies - Mansfield Road (i.e. the A60) is to be found.

Roundabout at junction of Thackerays Lane and Arno Vale Road.