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Brayton Crescent, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 9DZ

View eastward, towards Daybrook, Nottingham etc.; ex-Great Northern, Grantham - Nottingham - Derby line. The locomotive is LMS Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 No. 43059. See Image for details about the line.

View eastward, towards Nottingham (Victoria), Colwick etc. and Grantham. Basford & Bulwell station only became 'Basford North' on 21/9/53; it was closed on 7/9/64 to passengers, along with the service from Derby (Friargate) etc. (goods 4/9/67). Beyond the station can be seen Park Lane Bridge, beyond which was the bridge carrying the main ex-Great Central line from Sheffield (Victoria) to Nottingham and the South. Trains through this station to/from Nottingham Victoria joined the main line at Bagthorpe Junction by connections either side of this bridge. A curve to the left just beyond the end of the Up (left) platform connected at Bulwell South Junction with the main line towards Sheffield. The lines straight ahead led to Leen Valley Junction and by the Daybrook Loop ('Back Line') round the north side of Nottingham to the great Colwick Yards and the main line to Grantham; the Back Line lost its meagre passenger services after the partial collapse of Mapperley Tunnel on 4/4/60, although Goods continued until 1/6/64. The GC main line effectively ceased as a through route on 5/9/66 and Nottingham Victoria closed on 5/7/67.

This view westwards from the former railway bridge on Park Lane shows the industrial units built on what was from 1878-1968 Basford North railway station, on the Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate, a line built principally to carry coal from Erewash Valley pits to the marshalling yard at Colwick for onward despatch. Ben Brooksbank's Image] shows the station from the west, looking towards here, in the days of steam.

Looking north east from the junction with Brooklyn Road. The houses are typical of inter war council housing in Nottingham.

Residential road off Highbury Road.

Looking north from the south eastern end of Brooklyn Road.

View eastward on the ex-Great Northern lines, towards Daybrook and Colwick ahead under the bridge carrying the ex-Great Central main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield; Basford North (former Basford & Bulwell) station is behind the camera. The locomotive is Gresley V2 2-6-2 No. 60878 on the loop towards Bagthorpe Junction and Nottingham Victoria.

The trackbed of the Great Northern line to Derby has been partly filled in to make a small playground. The curious-looking parapet was a British Railways replacement for the wrought-iron original and rather remarkably dates from 1965 - a year after passenger services ceased and only two years before the line was abandoned completely. Basford North station was to the left and the Basford East junctions, leading to where the GNR met the Great Central main line, the southbound line via the "Rathole" tunnel, were to the right. The other side of this bridge appears, under the footbridge, in Ben Brooksbank's 1963 pictures Image] and Image My father always called this "Dobby Bridge", but I've no idea why, or if anyone else did, or of the name's origin.

The houses on the left and the industrial estate on the right are built on the site of the Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate, which crossed the road here on a substantial brick arch. Basford North (originally Basford & Bulwell) Station was to the right, its platforms ending at the bridge, high above Vernon Road. The high embankment to the left was levelled and Oakleigh Street, Susan Drive, Gabrielle Close and Lauriston Drive occupy its site.