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Due to remembrance service at Mapperley Shops, the 60/1 were diverted via Mapperley Rise, Winchester Street, Mansfield Road, Thackeray's Lane, Arno Vale Road, Somersby Road and Plains Road.
662 was seen on Winchester Street whilst on the 60 towards Gedling.
One which I photographed and had a ride on was the N27 from Nottingham to Mapperley.
The route is a massive amalgamation of the following daytime routes, in order of coverage by the N27: 43, 27, 24/25 and 45. Starting off here, the service runs like the 43 as far as Cardale Road, where it then turns onto - making it the one and only bus route to use Cardale Road. At the end of that, it's on to Carlton Hill, and the route of the 27 until Cavendish Road - at which point it's a case of following the 24/25 routes to Shelford Road/Digby Avenue. There, it's up to Wollaton Avenue turning circle, and onto the route of the 45, terminating on Woodborough Road, at Shelton Street.
Seen here on Burton Street, taking a rest between runs, is 919 (YT61GPY) - by pure coincidence, the same vehicle I had last time!
A lucky grab, this was actually five minutes in front of my 27, but due to the volume of traffic it got caught in, which in turn led to more people catching the service, we overtook it at Carlton Shops, handy when I needed a snap of this one!!
418 approaches Carlton Tesco with a 25 to Arnold via Gedling, Mapperley and Daybrook.
Upper Parliament Street, Milton Street, Woodborough Road, Plains Road, Mapperley Plains, Nottingham Road, Bank Hill, Main Street, Lingwood Lane, Green Lane, Church Street, Main Street, Spring Lane, Mapperley Plains.
Nottingham, Upper Parliament Street Blue Bell PH
Nottingham, York House (3mins)
Nottingham, Huntingdon Street (4mins)
St. Ann's, Ransom Road Top (10mins)
Mapperley, Shops (15mins)
Mapperley Plains, Coppice Road (19mins)
Woodborough, Church (27mins)
Lambley, The Dumbles (32mins)
Mapperley Plains, Spring Lane Top (39mins)
Frequency
30 minutes Monday to Saturday mornings
60 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes
Two hourly Monday to Saturday evenings
Two hourly Sunday daytime
To ease overcrowding on the St. Ann's services at school time in the morning, an extra bus is slotted in on the 40B, which is provided by a Sky Blue Line Slimline Solo, which works in on a 47 from Calverton to Nottingham Upper Parliament Street, then runs out of service down the street to Victoria Centre, where it takes up the 40B to St. Ann's Well's Road Top, where it then runs out of service to Mapperley Shops to spend the day on the 46 between Arnold and Nottingham.
144 takes up the school extra 40B to St. Ann's in Nottingham on Upper Parliament Street.
After a long reprieve, it's quite nice to see OmniDekkas once again crawling up Woodborough Road. As much as the drivers haven't enjoyed them on there for the last couple of weeks, it's been nice to see the 61 plates somewhere a bit different to the usual Cliftons they've been used on since 2019.
927 gets near the top of the long slog on Woodborough Road from Nottingham on a 60 to Chase Farm via Mapperley and Gedling.
Whilst the 56 is diverting non-stop via Mapperley Shops, it made sense to head up there on a Sunday afternoon when there's not as much traffic, even less today as a lot of people were watching Forest at Wembley....
537 is pictured off route at Mapperley Shops with a 56 to Nottingham via Sherwood.
European Robin / erithacus rubecula. Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire. 21/11/15.
Taking centre stage, one very dapper Robin!
Not one of 'my' Robins from the private site I use, but one in a local wood. Interestingly, much more wary, so I was pleased when it eventually posed so nicely.
The blurred branches in the background remind me of spotlights focussing on and around the bird! Would love to know what others think.
47739 passes Rectory Junction in full sun whilst threatening skies loom over Nottingham in the background. 6E07 the 11.51 Washwood Heath - Boston Docks empty steel working is seen passing Rectory Junction box at 14.23 on Thursday 16th August 2012.
The train is travelling on the Nottingham to Grantham line and the section of track from Netherfield Junction to here was once the western edge of Colwick yard. The two lines furthest right are the access to the oil terminal but previously these lines were two of those that headed from this point to Gedling and North through Mapperley tunnel, they bounded the East side of the massive Colwick Yard. Up to the mid 60's the space in-between the two pairs of lines was nothing but railway as far as the eye could see.
Here's a photo taken from the opposite side of the tracks from Rectory box.
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The line to Netherfield Junction is on the left and the train is coming off the yard and is on the lines now used for the oil terminal, it will shortly pass the box and head off over the Trent and South towards Grantham and possibly the ECML. The signal to the left of the buffer beam places the train as that is number 3 home signal as was complete with fireman's call plunger sign on the post. That was replaced over time by the much shorter current number 55 signal which stands in almost the same spot. Number 55 signal can be seen in my photo just poking above the third and fourth wagons. (the signal arm obscured by the backboard that virtually all new signals seem to have these days).
The route out of Nottingham on the 45 is surprisingly hilly, Woodborough Road climbing at various points up to Mapperley from Nottingham.
434 makes light work of one of the many gradients on Woodborough Road with a 45 to Gedling via Mapperley.
From time to time, it's possible to see lilac biogas deckers on Mansfield Road, to get to/from Arnold fast.
419 hurries through Sherwood out of service to take up the next 25 from Arnold to Nottingham via Mapperley, Gedling and Carlton.
The frequency on the 45 has once again been boosted back to every 7/8 minutes from every 10 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytimes, meaning it's even more convenient to just turn up and go at any stop on the route with no real need to check the timetable!!
440 exits Nottingham at Shelton Street on Woodborough Road with a 45 to Gedling via Mapperley.
Another view of the screens at West Hallam Disposal Point, Mapperley, Langley Mill, Derbyshire. 18th September 1985.
Queen Street, Upper Parliament Street, Lower Parliament Street, King Edward Street, St. Ann's Well Road, The Wells Road, Woodborough Road, Mapperley Rise, Sherwood Vale, Winchester Street, Mansfield Road, Edwards Lane, South Road, Linden Way, North Road, Hucknall Road.
Nottingham, Queen Street
Nottingham, Victoria Centre (3mins)
St. Ann's, Robin Hood Chase (6mins)
St. Ann's, Kildare Road (11mins)
St. Ann's, The Wells Road Top (14mins)
Sherwood, Shops (18mins)
City Hospital, Purple Car Park (24mins)
City Hospital, Hucknall Road (29mins)
Frequency
30 minutes Monday to Saturday morning
30-60 minutes Monday to Saturday evenings
60 minutes Sunday
Now that additional vehicles are required for the L10, L11 and L14, the former Medilink Solos 925-933 look set to become the new buses used.
926, now void of branding, gets perfectly framed by the trees of Queens Bower Road with a Locallink L9 to Nottingham via Arnold, Sherwood and Mapperley.
One interesting service on the North side of the City is CT4Ns Shopper S11 which operates hourly between Woodthorpe and Bulwell running via Mapperley, Mapperley Plains, Plains Estate, Sainsbury's, Arnold, Bestwood Park, Top Valley, Moor Bridge, Morrisons and Bulwell Hall Park!!
1003 exits the Norwich Gardens Turning Circle alongside the Chris Firth Cottages now used by The Toy Library, a local charity, with an S11 to Mapperley.
Hartness Road, Clifton Lane, New Rise, Clifton Lane, Farnborough Road, Pastures Avenue, Summerwood Lane, Farnborough Road, Green Lane, Southchurch Drive, Rivergreen, Sunninghill Drive, Brinkhill Crescent, Greencroft, Orford Avenue, Farnborough Road, Clifton Lane, Clifton Bridge, Clifton Boulevard, North Road, Queen's Medical Centre Forecourt, Derby Road, Middleton Boulevard, Crown Island, Western Boulevard, Valley Road, Mansfield Road, Nottingham Road, High Street, Croft Road, Front Street.
Clifton, Hartness Road
Clifton, The Dip (3mins)
Clifton, Lark Hill Village (5mins)
Clifton, Manesty Crescent (8mins)
Clifton, Cornerstone (15mins)
Clifton, Sunninghill Drive Shops (18mins)
Clifton, Fabis Drive (23mins)
Silverdale, Clifton Bridge South (24mins)
Showcase Cinema (26mins)
QMC, Forecourt (32mins)
Radford, Crown Island (35mins)
Aspley, Bluecoat School (39mins)
Basford, The Futurist (45mins)
City Hospital, Valley Road (48mins)
Daybrook, The Vale (51mins)
Arnold, Sainsbury's (55mins)
Arnold, Front Street (59mins)
Frequency
30 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes
60 minutes Saturday daytime
Connections available at:
Clifton Fabis Drive to 1 for Gotham, East Leake and Loughborough
Clifton Fabis Drive to 1 and 4 for Trent Bridge and Nottingham
Clifton Cornerstone to 3 for Ruddington
City Hospital to 15/16 for Rise Park
Daybrook The Vale to 25 for Mapperley and Carlton
Crown Island to 28 for Beechdale and Bilborough
Crown Island to 28/30/31 for Radford
Ringwood Crescent to 30 for Wollaton Park
QMC to 34 for University of Nottingham
QMC to 35 for Wollaton Vale and Bilborough
QMC to 36 for Beeston and Chilwell
City Hospital to 40 for Sherwood and St. Ann's
Clifton Cornerstone to 48 for The Meadows and Nottingham
Clifton Bridge North for the 49 to Boots Factory
Arnold Sainsbury's to 58 for Killisick
Basford Futurist to 68/69 for Bulwell
Bluecoat School to 77 for Strelley
Whitemoor to 78 for Aspley
Whitemoor to 79 for Broxtowe and Cinderhill
Edwards Lane to 88 for Bestwood Park and Top Valley
Edwards Lane to 89 for Bestwood Park and Rise Park
The 24 is essentially a shorter version of the 25, to strengthen the service between Nottingham, Carlton and Gedling to every ten minutes Monday to Saturday daytime. At peak time Monday to Friday, the services run to/from Mapperley every ten minutes, morning to Nottingham, afternoon to Mapperley.
419 is seen climbing Westdale Lane on the final leg of the 24, the sprawling backdrop including Netherfield and Victoria Retail Park.
Quite literally fresh out of the box, the last remaining gas deckers out of the initial thirty are ready for service.
422 is seen at Charles Street in Arnold with a 25 to Nottingham via Mapperley, Gedling and Carlton.
1988 Volvo 240 GLT.
Suppled by Speeds of Mapperley (Volvo).
Photo with kind permission of succulent95.
Whilst keeping a lookout for new Lime Biogas devices, something else of interest popped up, too!!
967 pulls away from Arnold Sainsbury's with a Locallink L9 to Nottingham (eventually) via City Hospital, Sherwood and Mapperley.
As luck would have it, about an hour after leaving Dan at Mapperley Plains having had a jaunt round Lambley and Woodborough on his random allocated bus, he emerged on Arnold Front Street, this bus doing one round on the 47, then two on the 87.
384 is unusually seen departing Arnold Front Street on it's way back to Nottingham via Redhill, City Hospital (wrong side to it's usual haunts) and Sherwood.
With a perfect number of branded buses in use on the 45, spares don't seem to come up too often on the route, so I was thankful when one I needed turned up in Nottingham in the afternoon peak time.
433 loads up at Queen Street with a 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road and Mapperley.
The 46 operated the same way as the 47 between Nottingham and Spring Lane End, but then continued along Mapperley Plains, then down Coppice Road and Ravenswood Road into Arnold, terminating on Front Street outside Asda.
This route was cancelled at the end of August 2016 when the council were pulling the funding from the 47 services. This change saw the 46 and 47 offer circular services around Woodborough and Lambley into Nottingham up to every 30 minutes. As the service ran at near identical times to the 56, passengers along Ravenswood Road and Coppice Road still have a service to Nottingham, but it takes an additional ten minutes in comparison.
387 turns into Coppice Road on the edge of Plains Estate with a 46 to Arnold.
TEST 1
Trialing out my new camera ahead of launch of the gas Scanias, here's a spare working which needed crossing off, an 11 plate on the 45.
903 loads up on Queen Street with a 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road and Mapperley.
The Locallink L9 operated between Bestwood Park and Nottingham on a very convoluted route to serve a lot of places around the area off the beaten track.
Commencing at Hillington Rise, buses turned right to the bottom of Chippenham Road, turning left and immediate right to serve Mildenhall Crescent. From there, buses followed the 79 route to Arnold High Street before carrying on along the 58 route to Sainsbury's. From there, buses ran along Sir John Robinson Way, passing the new Aldi store on Mansfield Road before turning right at Daybrook Chip Shop onto Sherbrook Road. About half way along, buses turned left onto Sherbrook Terrace which turns into Longmead Drive. A slight tour round Northwood Crescent brought the service back onto Longmead. At the Premier cornershop, buses then turned left and followed Alderton Road onto Edwards Lane, where the L9 followed the Purple Line services to Sherwood Shops via City Hospital. Turning left at Winchester Street, buses followed the L8 service into the Winchester Court Flats complex, where a loop of the car park was observed.
Heading back out of the complex, instead of turning off to Winchester Street, buses climbed the first stretch of Mapperley Rise before turning an awkward 315 degree angle onto Sherwood Vale continuing along it and Woodthorpe Road to join the 45 route on Woodborough Road. The service then followed the 45 via Mapperley Shops as far as Moore Road on Westdale Lane, taking a right into the Moore Road dip, running the full length up onto Porchester Road. The service then followed the 39 route as far as St. Matthias Road via Thorneywood Mount and Gordon Road. The L9 then used St. Matthias Road to join Carlton Road, following Lilac Line services into Nottingham via the Ice Arena and Hockley, terminating outside the Post Office on Queen Street.
Nottingham Community Transport took over the service on the 25/1/15, with no changes to the route or the timetable, continuing to run hourly Monday to Friday and two hourly Saturday.
261 climbs Moore Road in Carlton Valley with a Locallink L9 to Bestwood Park via Mapperley, Sherwood and Arnold,
illustrating the dramatic backdrop of layers of houses down and up the valley to Porchester Road, with Duncan Macmillan House dominating the skyline.
A surprise find on Front Street was this E400. As I didn't have chance to see which bay it was pulled in at with no display showing, it was going to be either the 25 or the 56, either way, a winner....
604 emerges on Cross Street in Arnold with a 25 in place of a Biogas variant, heading to Nottingham via Mapperley, Gedling and Carlton.
Not just Navy OmniDekkas displaced, the three unbranded E400s are playing an important part too!!
639 sits in the queue on Upper Parliament Street with a 60 to Chase Farm via Woodborough Road, Mapperley and Gedling.
Notts & Derby Paladin 123 passing The Old Black Horse in Mapperley with the LAST 13 service from Ilkeston. As from Monday 31st, Yourbus have taken over some routes, but the 13 is no more.
Sat 29th March 2014.
Breaking free from the shackles of the 4, one of the oldest surviving OmniDekkas in the NCT fleet spent the day on the 25, now normally in the hands of the Biogas Scanias!!
689 loads up at The Crescent on Breck Hill Road in Woodthorpe with a 25 to Nottingham via Mapperley, Gedling and Carlton.
Nottingham City Transport 651, a 1979 Leyland Atlantean bus, is about to make the right turn from Mansfield Road into Blue Coat Street, as it departs the City for Mapperley, a district to the Northwest of Nottingham. The picture was taken about halfway up Mansfield Road, where the road climbs out of the City centre towards Sherwood. Our view of the scene is looking in a Southwardly direction back towards the City centre.
By today’s standards this road junction appears to be incredibly quite in 1987, with just two Ford Sierra cars to accompany the bus through the junction, of which one looks to be a taxi.
Photo: 23rd May 1987.
One good thing about snapping here on Carlton Road, it's a contant stream of Lilacs, I think I managed to tick off most the buses I needed in just over an hour along here. Not bad for upwards of ten buses out of the City Centre....
423 heads up Carlton Road with a 25 to Arnold via Carlton, Gedling and Mapperley.
When peak time timetable changes were introduced on Monday on Blue 40/41/42, it appears two more Solos make an appearance now to smoothen out the poor punctuality of the group of services.
237 punches the bottom of the hill on Mapperley Rise with a 40 to Nottingham via St. Ann's. This journey runs off the back of the school extra 88 from Oakwood Academy at 1517.
A bizarre sight to see in an evening is that of a midibus working on the 25B, yet it happens Monday to Friday on the 2047, 2147 and 2247 departures out of Nottingham, working alongside the --:17 departures using an OmniDekka!!
352 loads up at King Street with a 25B to Mapperley via Carlton and Gedling.
Whilst waiting for a late-running 17, I noticed this running into Nottingham, so whilst I was waiting, I thought I may as well get my first gas spare on the 45....
428 turns into Milton Street with a 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road and Mapperley.
Circa 1966, taken by Tony Cave.
The NCT Bus is an AEC Renown, registered in 1965, C Reg, could be DAU 364C,
which was on the Mapperley 31 route.
Behind it is another Renown, on route 41 (Trent Bridge?)
These were brought in to replace the Trolley Buses.
By the time BR came into being, its obvious that the old way of dishing out districts on the Railways had changed, Victoria Station was Great Northern and Great Central Railways, later LNER, but here the signage is Midland Region.
Down the old GCR line e.g., the ident was Eastern Region, however the whole line was originally Eastern, later becoming Midland Regions.
A modern comparison shot can be found here:-
Queen Street, Upper Parliament Street, Lower Parliament Street, King Edward Street, St. Ann's Well Road, The Wells Road, Woodborough Road, Mapperley Rise, Sherwood Vale, Chestnut Walk, Winchester Street, Mansfield Road, Edwards Lane, Valley Road, Hucknall Road, South Road, Linden Way, North Road, Edwards Lane, Alderton Road, Longmead Drive, Northwood Crescent.
Nottingham, Queen Street
Nottingham, Victoria Centre (2mins)
Nottingham, Pryzm (3mins)
St. Ann's, Robin Hood Chase (6mins)
St. Ann's, Kildare Road (11mins)
St. Ann's, The Wells Road Top (14mins)
Sherwood, Winwood Heights (18mins)
Sherwood, Shops (22mins)
City Hospital, South Entrance (29mins)
City Hospital, Purple Car Park (32mins)
City Hospital, Edwards Lane (33mins)
Edwards Lane Estate, Northwood Crescent (37mins)
Frequency
30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes