Derelict GNR warehouses seen from London Road (High Level) station site in Nottingham
<b>A walk around the old Nottingham London Road station site.</b>
A view of the monolithic Victorian industrial Great Northern Railway grain warehouses, now sadly derelict and open to the skies. Seen from the site of London Road (High Level) station.

GNR trains originally used the Midland station in Nottingham, but there were frequent disputes, especially when the GNR began running through trains from London via Grantham in a shorter time than the MR could manage. Though the Midland grudgingly accepted passengers into its station, it refused to handle goods which had to be carted from the terminus at Colwick.

To solve the problem, the GNR opened their own terminus along with an impressive goods and corn warehouse at London Road on 3 October 1857 served by a new line from near Netherfield, adjacent to the Midland line whose tracks they had previously used.

The larger warehouse building is the 76m (240ft) long James Alexander Building, built in the late 1800s. The two-storey warehouse to the right is the Great Northern Railway's Grain Warehouse, built in 1857 to a design by T. C. Hine. The structures are now Grade II listed buildings - however, both were severely damaged by fire in the 1990s and are now just shells supported by scaffolding. [Extra info courtesy of the caption in Graham Woodward's photo below]

More pictures showing the interior of the old GNR warehouses can be found here: <a href="http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12052" rel="noreferrer nofollow">nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12052</a>

and another shot here: <a href="http://www.nottingham21.co.uk/build_gnrwarehouse_1.htm" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.nottingham21.co.uk/build_gnrwarehouse_1.htm</a>

<i>I spent two years as a commuter on the Lincoln – Nottingham line. The railway opened in 1846 and was the first line into Lincoln, running into St Mark’s station. 
Although the modern railway seems somewhat soulless, I have tried to capture some pleasing moments from my many months of commuting.</i>

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: <a href="http://www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/</a>
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