Image ID: 43243

Construction of High Level Station, London Road, Nottingham Canal, Nottingham, 1898

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

Trent Street, Nottingham Canal
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
England

Showing construction work over the Nottingham Canal and Trent Street during construction of the Great Central Railway and of the London Road high-level station.Also shows the Trent Navigation Company warehouse.See web-site www.railwayarchive.org.uk/map/planIndex.php which shows detailed plans of the GCR in Nottingham. The whole line was built 1894-1898 as part of the new Great Central Railway, which ran from London Marylebone through Aylesbury, Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, linking up to the old Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.The first coal trains ran between London and Sheffield in 1898, and passenger travel followed in March 1899. The railway had changed its name to The Great Central Railway, and now the network ran from London in the south through the Midlands to the older network in the North between Lincoln, Grimsby, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool and Wrexham. In 1923, the GCR was grouped with the GER, GNR, NER, NBR and others to form the London North Eastern Railway when in 1948 British Railways was formed. The line closed in the 1960's, a victim of 'Beeching's Cuts' in the national rail network.

Date: 1898

Organisation Reference: NCCV000339

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