Nottingham Victoria

Below is a link to the place I fell in love with steam railways, Nottingham Victoria station. No longer there except for the clock tower.
When I was 10 years old (and my brother 8 in 1959) We took a pack up lunch to Grantham station (ECML) to trainspot for the day. Unbeknown to our parents, we bought a 2d platform ticket, boarded a non-corridor coach on the Nottingham train and went to Nottingham! When we got there we never left the station so we never needed to show a ticket and spent the day amongst LMS, LNER and the odd GWR (all British Railways by then!). Then we would get the train back to Grantham and walk out with a platform ticket as if we had been there all day! I would not have let my kids spend a day out at 10 and 8 years old and certainly not my grand kids!! How times have changed but still love my steam !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puxlo1c29t4

Thanks for reading,
Cheers
Ron

Excellent link Ron, thanks for sharing. I do like the mix of locomotives with the occassional diesel and a glimpse of a DMU. :thumbs

Cheers, Gary.

Brilliant Ron - I love these old films.  They show what can and can't be done to trains and their formations with our own layouts.

Nostalgia indeed.  Any more where that came from ?  thumbsthumbs:thumbs

Leeds Central was my favourite - also now "history" …………..:sad:

G`day Ron,
Thanks for the link…..very enjoyable…..there was even a break down train!!!…..and a good mix of rolling stock passing through.
That station would make a great model railway.

:cheers  Gormo

Nice.

I just about remember Nottingham Victoria.  It's a place I have very seldom had reason to visit.  Back in the early 1970s I found the northern approaches were still very much a railway cutting despite the rest of the station having become a shopping centre.  That sulphurous tunnel mouth was bricked up by then.

On that trip I also traced the remains of Weekday Cross Junction and the viaduct south of Victoria station.

Last year I revisited for the first time since then and noted there is now a brand new bridge over Midland station for the new tramway.  But as part of that regeneration all traces of the arches around Weekday Cross have now gone.

A couple of other films of Nottingham Victoria I found:







Enjoy, cheers

Ron