2008

SK5538 : Leen Valley Railway bridge

taken 16 years ago, near to Lenton, Nottingham, England

This is 1 of 3 images, with title starting with Leen in this square
Leen Valley Railway bridge
Leen Valley Railway bridge
Part of the Midland Railway empire. The Leen Valley branch was the first line to be built up the Leen Valley to tap the coalfields between Nottingham and Mansfield. It was late joined by a branch of the Great Northern Railway and the Great Central. Here it crosses the Nottingham Canal on a plate girder bridge. At this point the line also carries traffic from Nottingham to Chesterfield and Sheffield via the Erewash Valley line.
Nottingham Canal

The Nottingham Canal was 14.7 miles long from Langley Mill to the River Trent in Nottingham. William Jessop was appointed in 1791 to survey the Canal but most of the work was done by James Green. The canal was put before Parliament in 1792 and Benjamin Outram made engineer under Jessop who had to give up the post as Chief Engineer before completion due to illness. The canal opened in 1796 after many difficulties at a cost of £43,500, twice the estimate. From the 1840s after the arrival of the railways the canal declined and was abandoned altogether in 1936 by the then owners Great Northern Railway Co. The section between the Trent and Lenton was passed to Trent Navigation Company at this time. Most of the canal was built over from 1955 but the section from Derby Road to Lenton Chain was re-used as a new course for the River Leen and so is still in water and remains in use as part of the Beeston and Nottingham Canal that allows boats to navigate past the shallow water on the Trent at Clifton Bridge and the weir at Beeston.


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SK5538, 574 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 27 January, 2008   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 6 February, 2008
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 557 389 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:56.7141N 1:10.3522W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 556 389
View Direction
Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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