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Beechdale Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 3LL

I'm not sure when this was built, but between 1965 and 1975 is pretty certain I'd say

From the mouth of the pedestrian underpass beneath Western Boulevard

There are no windows in this strange protuberance, just two air bricks in the wall parallel to the building. I wonder what it looks like from the inside.

This is the line from Radford Junction to Trowell Junction on the Erewash Valley Line, which was built to enable trains to and from the north to avoid the bottlenecks at Trent and Toton. For a view towards here from Woodyard Lane, see Image The railway formation here, overgrown to the right, is wider than the current double track as from the 19th century until the building of Western Boulevard and the houses either side, it was the site of Babbington Sidings, which ran parallel to the main line almost as far west as Woodyard Lane. The railway serving these sidings linked Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery and the Nottingham Canal at a wharf immediately south of Wollaton Road and crossed this line on the level east of this bridge - see Image For other vestiges of the Babbington Colliery line, see Image], Image], Image], Image], and Image]

This view north from the railway bridge shows traffic stopping at the Beechdale Road lights. Western Boulevard, part of the ring road, was built in the 1930s at the beginning of the huge westward expansion of the city before and after the war. Until then, Beechdale Road was a footpath from Radford to Bilborough. The Baths are out-of-picture to the left, Robert Shaw Primary School and the Ainsley Estate to the right. Fifty-odd years ago I was nearly knocked off my bike here when turning right to go down the twitchel on to the estate.

Private housing on Nottingham's ring road.

This is part of the route of National Cycle Route number 6 through Nottingham.

The bridge carries the line from Radford Junction to Trowell Junction on the Erewash Valley Line, which was built by the Midland Railway in 1875 to enable trains to and from the north to avoid the bottlenecks at Trent and Toton. It also served Wollaton Colliery (1873-1965). This area was once called Radford Woodhouse, but its three Victorian terraces (to the right), Gate, Vane and Leavers Street, were demolished long ago and replaced more recently by streets named after railway locomotive engineers: Aspinall Court, Lambie Close and Peppercorn Gardens. None of these designers had any connexion with the Midland, so the council officials who chose them were less on-the-ball than when naming streets on former Great Northern Railway land at Sneinton after Gresley and Ivatt. For a view of the other side of the bridge and more railway history, see Image