![]() Station Name: THORNEYWOOD[Source: Simon Swain & Nick Catford]
![]() Thorneywood station looking north from the barrow crossing c1904. The main station building is on the left with a waiting room on the down platform. The signal box is seen on the up platform just north of the waiting room. The lattice bridge spanning the line in the middle distance linked Marmion Road and Porchester Road which ran parallel with the line on either side. The goods shed is seen beyond the bridge on the left with the retaining wall on the right. The stationmaster's house is seen on top of the cutting on the right.
Photo from Brubaker Imaging ![]() ![]() 1901 1: 10,560 (6") map showing Thorneywood station and the surrounding area. Sneinton Tunnel is seen to the south. A rope-worked incline behind the up platform ran in a tunnel under Porchester Road into the Thorneywood Brickworks of the Nottingham Patent Company. To the south of the station, on the down side, another siding ran into the Nottingham Builders' Brick Company works. Click here for
a larger version. ![]() 1912 1:2,500 OS map shows the layout of the station and goods yard. The station fronts directly onto Marmion Road. There are facing buildings on the two platforms with a footbridge spanning the line to the south. To the north, a public footbridge spans the cutting linking Marmion Road and Thorneywood Lane . The goods yard is on the down side to the north of the station with its entrance off Marmion Road just north of the station building. The yard comprises two loops, one passing under the canopy of a large goods shed. From these a short siding runs behind the north end of the down platform where there is a cattle dock. A weighbridge and office are seen just inside the entrance to the yard. The small building to the south of the main station building is a lamp room. An additional siding entered from the north loops around the western perimeter of the yard. There is also a loop on the up side; from this a rope-worked incline runs through a short tunnel under Thorneywood Lane and on to the Thorneywood Brickworks. All traffic movements around the station are controlled from two signal boxes: one is on the up platform just north of the waiting room, and the other is to the north of the goods yard on the up side. The stationmaster's house is the second (L-shaped) building along Thorneywood Lane on the left. The next building north is the Cooper's Arms public house. Click here to see a larger version.
![]() Looking north at the Carlton Road bridge and Thorneywood station in 1904. The trailing junction on the left is the line serving the Nottingham Builders' Brick Company works which was partially on top of Sneinton Tunnel.
Photo from Brubaker Imaging ![]() Thorneywood was the busiest goods yard on the line, and sidings are seen here on both sides of the main line. The goods yard was on the down (left) side of the line. Two sidings pass the goods shed on the east side, one passing under the canopy. Another canopy is provided on the other side to give weather protection to road vehicles. The sidings on the up side link to the short branch to the Thorneywood Brickworks. The south portal of Thorneywood Tunnel is seen in the distance. Note the high brick retaining wall on the right, which can still be seen today. Thorneywood had two signal boxes: one is on the up platform, and the other can just be made out behind the wagon in
the foreground on the right. Photo from Brubaker Imaging ![]() The stationmaster, Leo Faunthorpe, stands on the platform at Thorneywood awaiting the arrival of a southbound train hauled by a GNR Stirling R Class No.822 in 1911. The station signal box is seen on the platform. There was a second box close to the entrance to the goods yard on the up side. The lattice footbridge in the background links Marmion Road with Porchester road and avoids a long walk round the south end of the station. The two buildings on top of the cutting are the Cooper's Arms pub in the centre and the stationmaster's house on the right.
Photo from Jim Lake collection ![]() An unidentified 0-6-0 J50 hauls a freight train through the closed Thorneywood station c late 1920s. Carlton Road bridge is seen in the background. The supports from the demolished down platform canopy are seen on the right.
![]() Enthusiasts gather on the platform at Thorneywood on 16 June 1951. The last passenger train to use the station was the RCTS (East Midlands branch) Nottingham railtour which was a round trip to Heanor from Nottingham Victoria via Daybrook, Bulwell Common and Ilkeston. 67363 is an ex-GNR Ivatt 4-4-2T, built at Doncaster works in April 1900 and later fitted for push-and-pull working. It survived until 30 November 1958 when it was withdrawn from New England shed and sent to Doncaster for cutting up.
Photo by HB Priestley ![]() Thorneywood station looking north in May 1952, eight months after complete closure of the line. All of the up platform buildings have been demolished. Part of the down platform building is intact although it lost its canopy many years earlier.
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![]() Thorneywood station looking south from the pubic footbridge in May 1952. The entrance to the goods yard is seen on the right with the weighbridge and weigh office just inside the yard entrance. A short siding serves the cattle dock at the rear of the north end of the down platform. All the buildings on the up platform were demolished in April 1938. The sidings on the left served the incline to the Thorneywood Brickworks of the Nottingham Patent Brick Company. The short headshunt behind the up platform allowed only a small number of wagons to be hauled along the incline at one time. The bottom of the incline can be seen coming in from the left; the tunnel portal is behind the retaining wall on the left.
Copyright photo from Stations UK ![]() Thorneywood station looking north from the passenger footbridge in May 1952. The booking office was partially demolished in April 1938. The cattle dock is seen behind the north end of the up platform.
Copyright photo from Stations UK ![]() Thorneywood station looking south during track-lifting c1963. Sneinton Tunnel is seen on the south side of Carlton Road. Note the trolley bus on the bridge on the 39 route, one of eight routes in the city. The 39 ran between Post Office Square Carlton and Crown Island, Ilkeston Road, Motor buses replaced trolley buses in 1965; the last trolley buses were withdrawn on 30 June 1966. Six Nottingham trolley buses are preserved, four of them at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshirethe.
Photo by John Mann ![]() Looking south at Thorneywood station site c1970. A GPO engineering centre was built on the site c1960s. The Carlton Road bridge is seen in the background to the left of the chimney.
Photo from John Mann collection ![]() Looking north at the site of Thorneywood station from Carlton Road in the mid 1990s.
Photo by C Adamson from his Flickr photostream ![]() Looking north towards the site of Thorneywood station from the public footbridge in 2000. The GPO depot closed in 1999 and was quickly demolished and replaced with the sheltered housing seen here.
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![]() Looking south along Len Maynard Court at the site of Thorneywood station in April 2011. The stationmaster's house is seen above the houses on the left.
Photo by Nick Catford
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