- though, I realise that there is already some competition in
that category within my own collection. This one shows a bridge parapet on the
road leading into Rainworth from the White Post roundabout. It is disappearing
beneath vegetation and on the other side of the road its twin has vanished long
ago. I nearly failed to notice it in passing, myself, and I had to double back
to take my photo, having suddenly realised that it represented a gap in my
mental map of the old colliery lines in the area.
This was the bridge over the spur connecting the Blidworth
colliery branch to the Mansfield to Southwell line. It looped round to join
that route in a south to east connection at Blidworth Junction, allowing coal
from the pit to be taken straight towards Nottingham, via Fiskerton Junction. Moving on, I turned towards Blidworth and came across
Nightjar Way, close to the former colliery site. Though nightjars are still regular
summer visitors to the area, they will be giving this particular venue a miss
since all these new houses have been built on their patch.
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