Lady Bay Bridge was also used masquerading as a Berlin border crossing in the TV series Smiley's People.

I don't know if anyone else has picked it up but the bridge at 6.29 is over Radcliffe Road, not Melton Road. The cranes in the background were building Notts County Council offices in the corner of Trent Bridge cricket ground in the mid-1960s. The shop to the right of the bridge was Ebrey & Brown's where I had my first job - as a paper boy.

God I've never seen a old railway bridge converted into a road, gutted but happy it exists still. Another absolute quality production by the way. Many thanks

I grew up in West Bridgford and I remember lady bay bridge being converted to a road bridge I also went to Rushcliffe school and remember the train track area being filled in to make a new car park. The test track he ended at used to be accessible as well because myself and a mate walked there when I was about 12-13 years old..

Thanks for sharing. I haven't lived in Nottingham for many years, so it was great to get a glimpse of the old Locksley School in Devonshire Road. I went there in the 60s'. Dad used to own Mansell's Licenced Grocers (opposite the TBI) before the onslaught of the big supermarkets took over. We used to play on the Edwalton station. Fond memories.

Not sure what your background is but you have a real skill for making these videos. Thank you for all the excellent content you produce.

I've watched a few of your videos and enjoyed them all particularly those on the GCR but this was very close to my heart as I lived only a few yards from this stretch of railway off Selby Road. I played 'down the embankment' as a child, the brickworks was still there back then but the tracks lifted I think (1970 onwards) but essentially much of the infrastructure along the line through the cutting and all the way up to Edwalton was very much intact including telegraph poles and even some of the wires still present. I wish I'd kept some of the insulators that I remember scattered over the ground! Edwalton Station was as it was in one of your photographs, track lifted and a bit forlorn but the platforms and buildings were still there and it was possible to explore inside them as most of the boarding had been pulled off (not guilty!) Sometime after I left home my mum moved into one of the houses on Selby Road backing onto the embankment just above the Devonshire Road bridge. It's brilliant that the bridge at Devonshire Road was preserved and the route converted into such a pleasant walk which is well used by local residents. Whilst mum was alive I used to visit often and always walked my dog along the path reminiscing about the happy times I spent down there in my childhood! Thank's so much for posting the video and the others too, fascinating as I love railways and local history but even more so with my strong local connections to this location.

Now that's a shock never knew a railway line that ran to Melton, love the videos keep them coming! I love my military airbases your like me you want to know more ,I take my hat to you the work you put into these videos 👍🏻

Another illustrative part of our railways. Now sadly gone

What a terrific video! So well filmed and skilfully edited. And - as a relative newcomer to Nottingham (I have lived here since 2006) - I learned so much interesting information from you. Many thanks.

Truly fascinating for me as I lived in Melton for 23 years. I remember being sat in the station waiting for a train to Leicester when the APT pulled in to the other platform!! There are some very good vids of the journey from the buffers at the golf course along the Old Dalby test track, ending not far short of Melton.

Very interesting to stumble upon this video. I remember travelling from St Pancras to Nottingham by this route in the 1960s. My late father worked at the Nicholson & Myall garage in Melton Road near the first bridge from 1932-39 and the 1960s trips were made to visit his mother, who still lived in Exchange Road, West Bridgford. While there on one occasion I walked along the A606 to the second bridge. Thank you for bringing back these memories. I did not realise that so much of the old trackbed is now a footpath.

Best time of the year to go hunting in the undergrowth. Everything has died back!

These were the Railway equivalent of their era of the motorways we have today, smooth, swift performers compared to the rough pot holed roads of the 19th century horse drawn era. So many routes built with good intention in mind, but sadly never really could pay their way, with eventual closure the result. Dr Beeching sealing the lid on so many of these in the mid 1960's. You can't but stop to admire some of the colossal efforts made to construct these railway lines. Great exploration, thanks for sharing.🙂👍

I lived in West Bridgford in the late 60s & early 70s and can remember the test track. At that time it actually finished on the West Bridgford side of the Boundary Road bridge near to the brickworks. I can remember going up there when in the Scouts and beyond the buffer stop there was a long section filled with hardened foam or polystyrene presumably as a safety measure.

Being a Nottingham lad and being old enough to remember the steam trains your videos are really good. I really like the idea that you are saving what few memories we have of those by gone days and making them available. The drone also really adds a great touch giving an aerial view of some places that have long gone., with the addition of the black and white stills the picture becomes complete. Please keep them coming ..... if you are looking for material (I vaguely remember small hints of a railway that crossed Coventry road Bulwell near to Sellars Wood road when I was a boy in 60's) I just thought you being a forensic railway hunter, you might have been able to shed some light on it, it was long gone even back then.

When I was 8 years old (1963)...I lived on West Avenue very close to that first Railway Bridge over Melton Road..My Dentists was under that bridge right next to some Public Toilets.!!...Enjoyed the nostalgic black and white photos of Melton Road and the trains. Great content as usual...🤔😀😀🇬🇧

There was a story today on the Nottingham Post website about a council plan to open up a railway arch near to the A52 to make a footpath for the people in the houses behind the test track embankment. This will join on to the golfcourse footpath and save the residents from having to walk along a busy fast road to get to Edwalton. Good idea!

I’m searching these ones out cus I’m a Nottnum lad born and bred 👍🏻🙂 Never been into the history much until I got older. Laying the photo’s next to landmarks just sends my mind back to that time. Easy to picture what it was like back then. Brilliant 👊🏻

I live just near the test track a bit further down from Edwalton and did that same walk last year. Not sure if you've done it, but there's old line in Bingham you could walk. The first part is the "linear park", but it goes on quite a way through the countryside after that. If you've already done it, be interested to check it out. Have really enjoyed watching the videos you've done in the East Midlands area, great work

I walked along the Green Line today with my dad for the first time in a long time.

Great footage of this lesser known route out of Nottingham, its such a shame short sighted politicians had all this either converted, as in Ladybay Bridge or ripped up all together as the population has risen considerably over the intervening years. Very interesting walk all the same, the old pictures you referred back to look fantastic. The occasional rail tour goes on to the Old Dalby test track from time to time.

Interesting video as always, Ant. I have driven over the Lady Bay bridge. I used to do coach tours to Nottingham regularly. I remember the last time I was there, a section of the old viaduct was being demolished, a lovely Grey brick structure. Part of it seems to be used by the teams though.

Just had my car break down in Edwalton. Funny that I would then end up watching this video!

I can also remember travelling along Melton Rd at Edwalton in the 80's & being able to see the buffer stop with what looked like about 100yds of white polystyrene positioned between the rails & over time this degenerated to create an unsightly mess in the vicinity, but that must of been cleaned up for some time ago. I guess that when they were testing the A.P.T.E & that they couldn't of trusted the brakes on it & the polystrene was there for a precautionary measure for just in case !

Really enjoyed this vlog. 👍

Thanks for the video and chat. Cheers Ant!

Brilliant again. Loved the bridge at start vlog. Beautiful filming. Loved the old and then up to date photos. Quite nostalgic. Great drone footage. Thank you.

I'm originally a Nottingham lad and my grandparents lived on Stratford road (the removed embankment stretch between Bridgford Road and Melton Road). I remember the steam trains and a couple of embankment fires, also that metal bridge over Bridgford Road. A huge blue brick bridge (with tunnel for the footpath) has been removed from that stretch. The first time I went to London in about 1967 we went from Midland Station to St Pancras on this line.

awesome this was a interesting one, i normally know a bit about the lines you walk, i did not even know that one existed.

Really enjoyed that thanks Ant. The area was lovely enjoyed all the history too. Thanks so much for taking me along. please stay safe and take care

Nice walk, interesting as always..

Another excellent walk - fascinating. I never knew this railway track/walk from Melton Road even existed. Now, when I'm back in Nottm I want to go and find it. I don't know West Bridgford well, but my dad and mum had a pet shop on Melton Road right opposite the entrance to the Green Line (!) for many years, so it's also a bit nostalgic for me. Thanks, Ant!

I believe it was last used as a 'passenger carrier' after closure, by the Royal Train, conveying the Queen. It afforded a good view of the Cricket Ground too.

Great video...thoroughly enjoyed it...just a comment about Rushcliffe School in that it definitely opened before the line was closed. My mum used to take me up to Boundary Road in the early 60s to watch the trains and I remember wanting to go to the flash new school alongside the track. We moved away from Bridgford shortly afterwards but I was fortunate enough to complete my 6th form there later when my family moved back to the area.

At 22:10 Ant, that's a pretty impressive cloud effect ~ cooling tower or something? You really are a master at finding old photos, something I love doing myself. The shot at 11:11 is a cracker. I wonder what the tanks are ~ milk? Another interesting walk and you were lucky with the weather again. Thanks for taking us with you ~ great entertainment and educational too.👍👌😁 Cheers for now, Dougie.

Nicely done Ant, lots of history and the B&Ws bring it to life. As you say, an unusually overengineered culvert - those are not just ordinary bricks . . . . !!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great video and some very evocative black and white photos, Thanks for taking us along on another explore.

Thanks for another well researched video Ant. It’s nice to get out and about, if only on video. Great to see the black and white pictures and the re-use of the railway bridge, far too good to knock down. Well done.

Another great explore Ant....love the lady bay bridge i played football at the city ground in nottingham as a lad ...great so see all the stills featuring the class 45 peaks ...mind you this is midland main line area ...Thanks for this mate really enjoyed it ....regards Frank & Lee...

Another fascinating video, Ant. I always look forward to them every week as i am sure others do. I dont know the area but i am certainly learning about it. Cheers.

Hi from USA, just became a subscriber. Found you by accident in the suggestions "side bar" while watching Martin Zero. Great video. In the UK there is history everywhere, it's like you plant a rose and fine a Roman coin....... Thanks for your time and work....

Enjoyed this one, a interesting line as it runs through to west bridgeford and the lady bay bridge👍

Enjoy your wanderings around East Midlands & your stirring music. Have you done Seaton junc to North Luffenham (Rutland)?

Love your content, keep up the good work! I love sitting with a coffee watching your films!

Excellent video as usual.Thanks,

Thanks Ant another cracking vid

beyond my distance range but deffo interesting

Nice work! I often run along this route although I have never been further than boundary road, I've often wondered what was was left on the other side of it...might go and have a butchers myself! Cheers

Nice one Ant another great video, you’ve done the Gedling to colwick line and now the lone from lady bay bridge what about the bit from colwick to Nottingham station as there’s still some remnants on the colwick loop road ie platform near race coarse and more from race coarse island behind the virgin building and Smyths toys which are accessible.. another idea is the old Wilford line which is next to the new tram line there used to be an old bridge about 200 yards from the tram bridge that crossed the river there and if you look on the steps you can see where it was. Like I said I love watching your explores and can’t wait for the next one 👏👍

When I was a child, I remember going to Nottingham on a Bartons bus from Melton because the line had just closed, Years later, I remember that there was an emergency line , filled with polystyrene, that went under Melton Road, in case the APTE couldn't stop in time. After that, the line was given over to housing. Such a waste. A direct Nottingham, Melton, Corby, Kettering diversion line ruined by corrupt politicians as usual.

Yet another great Video under these horrible time , keep up the great work

Hiya - interesting @ 3:37 - what was once a Railway bridge - you can now drive over!!! @ 8:45 you can find them along the Monsal Trail in Derbyshire - not sure I think that they were for holding coal in - Great B /W Photos b. t. w. 🙂🚂🚂🚂

Excellent

Another great video,Ant, keep them coming x

The track should be opened as another rail heritage line and museum. I think its in a good location to attract a lot of visitors and its unique selling point could be to ride old trains at mainline speeds.

very good. thank you

Love this, thanks

Another great video 👍

We walked the line last week. The concrete box is a ballast box.

Very interesting thank you 👍

On 17th July 1984 a train headed by an unmanned Class 46 was sent down the test track and deliberately crashed into a nuclear waste container placed across the tracks at Old Dalby, in order to demonstrate the strength and crash resistance of the container.

great video and very educational :)

Have you considered doing the derby friargate line from Mickleover to Egginton. Its about 6 miles and was used as an old test track up until the early nineties with loads of railway artefacts to be seen

Thank you! Given the obscene amount of building mean little houses, surely a passenger line could be re instated?

Thank you.

How short sighted of the government. These disused and destroyed railways would now have served the communities that have grown up around them, either by continuing their use using railcars or creating a route for the tram network.

Hi mate when u mentioned the underground trains did u mean the old D STOCK trains used on district line and been converted by viva rail and some going onto the isle of wright railway

A-Star to the locals / governors who decided to preserve what they could after the connection to Nottingham got cut. Like most things in Britain, they cut things because its making no profit instead of seeing how things may of improved, they never have any foresight with transport. Still don’t lets hope future governments or organisations, locals actually speak up

Get video very interesting local History.

Is this the greenline,?🤔 these videos are cool would love to know if there was a train that went anywhere near St anns Wells Road nottingham

Are you going to do Melton Mowbray to Bottesford?

Have look at the dove Dearn canne

Thanks for very intresting walks you do great 👍🏻 Just one thing, it should be so nice if you are able to adjusting the volume between the regular video-music-explanations/railroad maps so it isnt up and down like an rollercoaster 🎢 Its not so Fantastic! Hoping for improvments 👍🏻😃 Outhervise just great production you do 👌🏻😃 Kindley greetings from Thor the Viking in Sweden 🇸🇪 Iam a subscriber to your channel of course 😃

It should be reopened as part of the Nottingham tram system

Mite not noticed that no station in westbridefod because of the snobs did not won't it put in if you go to boundary road the same sleepers

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a major rail loss this ant