Gallery 12

John Sutton's Chapel Lane

A view across the coal yard from the station platform, with Chapel Lane in the distance

A GCR J11 shunts the coal yard. Gilfrey's Siding on the left

A view along Gilfrey's Siding, with the Primitive Methodist Chapel glimpsed in the distance, beyond the buildings on Chapel Lane

GER J69 68635 waits at the ungated crossing before continuing up the Middle Siding to collect empty wagons from the bone works

An end view of the Admiral Rodney - stables behind, Chapel Lane in the front

The Primitive Methodist Chapel, based on the one at Sutton-on-theHill in South Derbyshire

04/8 2-8-0 63674 squeezes between the chapel and Burrell's High Class Shoe Repairs

A view up Chapel Lane: the Admiral Rodney pub on the left and the big-house wall in the distance, beyond the crossing

Looking back towards the crossing cottage garden on the left, H B Holland's bakery in the centre.

 

Looking over the garden wall towards the chapel as 68635 propels wagons to the bone works

Almost all of the 28 inch width of the Chapel Lane ensemble

Chapel, footpath and big house wall

Chapel and Stile

Chapel, footpath and big house wall

Looking backtowards Gilfrey's Siding from the level crossing which a J11 has just crossed.

The Admiral Rodney Yard, with the rear of Holland's bakery beyond

An Austerity picks its way over the level crossing while a Foden S20 flatbed waits

The coal yard gate is just behind the Admiral Rodney stables

Back in the coal yard, looking towards Gilfrey's Maltings.

Time to return to the passenger station, where a Director waits with a Nottingham Victoria train