Trent Lane Railway Crossing

[maccalenny]

Hi all, wondering if anyone remembers/has info on the railway crossing on Trent Lane. My great-grandfather Charles Green took over as gate-keeper there in 1910 I believe. His son Stanley was killed on the track in 1911 - harrowing reading the inquest reports. My grandfather was born in the house that stood next to the track, in 1916. I'm not sure when my great-grandfather retired, but he died in 1937. I have been to the crossing, but the house seems to be long gone. Does anyone remember the house, or even know where I might get a photo? There is just a triangle of wasteland now.

Kate

[jaywit]

Have you tried Picture The Past?
http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/

I haven't looked so I don't know if there is a picture.

[maccalenny]

Thanks - I haven't found the place yet but think I will have hours of fun looking - can't believe I haven't come across this website before!

Thanks again

Kate

[greyingrey]

Sure my mother will remember this. if it was still there when she was a child (born 1926) because she used to play around there.....I know that when I was a child we used to visit one of her friends who lived near there every couple of weeks or so & it was a big treat to see a train going by.....but I can only remember the crossing.

Don't suppose her memories  would be much use to you ?.......if there's anything you want me to ask, let me know. You could also get in touch with the main library in Nottingham & ask them if there's a Nottm club for train enthusiasts....there's bound to be one &, maybe they'd have someone who'd know about these things, or could at least tell you the best place to look/contact to find out if there is a photo

[greyingrey]

You might be in luck......I googled Nottingham Trent Lane & got a link headed "Nottingham Model Railway Society.....Trent Lane Crossing".......apparently their latest project is to make a model of the crossing & there's a photo on there from 1953 (which, I know, is later than you want, but even so......The link is www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk (sorry....can't do links)....you should be able to trace them through Nottingham's main library, anyway & they may have some older photos

[greyingrey]

Oh....this site automatically does links for you.....fab....didn't get me to the same page, though.....but you can contact them or google Nottingham Trent Lane

[maccalenny]

Hi - for the kind person whose Mum lived in the area - the attached photo is great-grandad Charles Green, gate-keeper, on wedding day to 2nd wife Sarah King, (she was blind, incidently) with her family - daughter Faith, son-in-law Sydney, and frind of family on left. She had another daughter Alice. They all lived down Kingsley Road for a while  - this photo may well have been taken there. Charles died about 6 months after this photo was taken, 1937-8. Sarah lived to the 1950s but moved to Basford during the war I think.

Kate

[greyingrey]

Thanks for the lovely photo....we'll go back there one day & think of them all

[Redroger]

This brought back memories, I thought just for a moment that the K2 locomotive in the picture had been shedded at Boston, we had several, then I recalled Colwick had them too, and more than us, they were used on the Skegness services in the summer mainly on freight all the year round. From what I can see of the signal box behind the train it is the standard GNR signalbox, and will have been there from when the line was first built. To get the details of the ground floor google a picture of Heckington Mill, it has the signalbox in the foreground, and is of identical type to the one at Trent Lane, though there may be minor variations of detail.