Image ID: 43221

GCR Excavations, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, c 1895

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

Lower Parliament Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
England

Showing temporary footbridge and part of the old town wall. This view is looking east towards the New Conexion Chapel on the corner of George Street and Lower Parliament Street.See NTGM009886 for a view of the excavations of the cutting at Thurland Street.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.

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