page_title: Tunnels of Nottingham
section_title: Great Central Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Tunnels of Nottingham / Great Central Railway
caption_attribution_description: Weekday Cross Tunnel South Portal Nov2007
context_page_description: Many of the tunnels of Nottingham were built by three railway companies in and around Nottingham, England because their lines crossed substantial hills. The companies were the Great Northern Railway, the Great Central Railway, and the Nottingham Suburban Railway.
  The LNWR built a station in Nottingham on Manvers Street with its own lines and sidings running off the GNR; whilst it had no tunnel on its short route, it did have a large underground storage depot under the station site, and this is still there. The Park Tunnel was built for more fanciful reasons. Nottingham is home to many underground structures but only those built for transport are mentioned here.
context_section_description: Mansfield Road Tunnel (south portal: 52.958346°N 1.147664°W, north portal: 52.968751°N 1.154337°W) is a 1,189-yard tunnel with its north portal in a railway cutting (now filled in) which housed Carrington railway station (closed in 1928) and continued south towards central Nottingham. Its south portal is at the north end of the extensive cutting which currently accommodates the Victoria Shopping Centre. The tunnel still exists but is not accessible.
  Sherwood Rise Tunnel (south portal: 52.970088°N 1.155496°W, north portal: 52.974721°N 1.160291°W) is a 665-yard tunnel and part of its north portal can still be seen in the partly filled cutting off Haydn Road in Basford and its south portal at the north end of the Carrington Station cutting. The tunnel still exists but is not accessible.
  Victoria Street Tunnel (south portal: 52.9513°N 1.1461°W, north portal: 52.955548°N 1.147063°W) also known as Weekday Cross Tunnel currently accommodates steam heating pipes from Nottingham's Cattle Market waste incinerator for the Victoria flats above Victoria Shopping Centre. This tunnel is 19 chains long (418 yards) and was originally built for the Great Central Railway completed in 1897 although the Great Central's Nottingham Victoria Station was not completed until 1900. The Victoria Shopping Centre was built on the site of the demolished Victoria Station. This tunnel runs south from Victoria Shopping Centre to its south portal near to Nottingham's Galleries of Justice at Weekday Cross. The Nottingham Express Transit line proceeds from just south of this portal towards Midland Railway Station on an original GCR viaduct. The Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (CCAN) has recently been built in the railway cutting in which the south portal resides.
caption: Weekday Cross Tunnel south portal November 2007. Last view of the tunnel mouth before it is covered up by the CCAN.
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