2011

SK5641 : All that remains of Carrington railway station

taken 13 years ago, near to Nottingham, England

All that remains of Carrington railway station
All that remains of Carrington railway station
Clarendon Park is built on the filled-in site of Carrington Station, which stood between Mansfield Road and Sherwood Rise Tunnels on the Great Central line from Nottingham Victoria. The platforms were about 25ft below the present ground level, to the left of the camera position. The station was only open to passengers from 1899-1928 (trams were a more convenient way to and from the city), but its derelict remains were a good place for truanting schoolboys to go trainspotting until the line closed in 1968. The south portal of Sherwood Rise Tunnel was under where the cars in the centre of picture are parked; the red-brick wall to their left, belonging to a house on Clumber Avenue, was the boundary of the railway land, as was the railway-owned blue-brick wall immediately in front of the camera, now the boundary of the New (Clarendon) College site. For an idea of Carrington Station nearly 50 years before, see SK5641 : Carrington Station, 1963.

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Geographical Context: Business, Retail, Services Suburb, Urban fringe Railways Place: Carrington Station Clarendon Park other tags: Great Central Railway Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Sherwood Rise [52] · Mansfield Road [51] · Built as Nottingham [28] · Avenue and Sherwood Rise [22] · City Centre [14] Other Photos: · Carrington Station, 1963 ·
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SK5641, 473 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
John Sutton   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 27 April, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 8 May, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 568 416 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:58.1416N 1:9.3243W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 568 416
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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