Panoramic photograph looking east from the Broadmarsh multi-storey car park over the GCR viaduct, in Feb. 1975. The Great Central Railway is in the foreground with Weekday Cross Junction on the far left, beyond which a tunnel leads to the site of Victoria station, and a girder bridge on the right, heading south. The GNR viaduct heads off from Weekday Cross Junction towards the right background and to London Road High-level station and Colwick.
The GCR viaduct here has been demolished and replaced by a concrete viaduct and new bridge for the new NET trams.

Just south of Weekday Cross Junction the Great Central crossed the rival Midland Railway station on a series of massive bridges. Just what the Midland Railway management said when they heard of the plans for this is not recorded!
Seen here looking south in November 1973, this is now the southern terminus of the NET tram system, see the photograph below.

A modern photograph (February 2007) from a similar position as the previous photograph showing the southern terminus of the NET tram system on top of the GCR viaduct, with a tram waiting on the near platform. Plans are well advanced to extend the tramway further south across the Midland station.

Looking east along Station Street showing the massive span crossing the Midland station. .

A closer view of the span across the Midland station, which was rebuilt shortly after the Great Central opened, seen here looking west in January 1975.

The bridges over the Midland station were demolished in the early 1980s. This view at Station Street, on the north side of the Midland station, shows the gap in the canopy where the bridge passed across. At present the southern terminus of the NET trams is immediately to the left and there are plans being made to bridge the Midland station again to extend the tram tracks southwards.

Demolition was also under way on the Great central bridges and viaduct at the south side of the Midland station.Queens Road is on the left.

A closer view of the demolition of the Great Central bridges and viaduct on the south side of the Midland station.

The remains of Arkwright Street station in Feb. 1975. The entrance was the bricked up doorway at bottom right. Compare with the photograph taken in 1969 in the Trip to Nottingham & Rugby section.

Another view of the demolition of Arkwright Street station. The platforms extended along the viaduct on the right.

Panoramic photograph taken in Jan. 1975, looking east, of the viaduct which supported Arkwright Street station. The entrance buildings shown in the photographs above can be seen on the far left. All of the terraced housing in this area was demolished too as part of a large redevelopment.

The bridge shown in the previous photograph, in the final stages of being cut up.

By May 1976 the redevelopment of the Meadows area around Arkwright Street station was well under way and the layout of roads and houses underwent radical changes. In this panoramic view the remains of Arkwright Street station, just right of centre, can be seen in relation to the Midland station at left. The road on the left leading to the Midland station is Sherriffs Way and the road on the right is Meadows Way.

The entrances to Arkwright Street station remained because the brickwork also supported the bridge which was still in place over Arkwright Street, in the background.

Moving further south we encounter the bridges over the Victoria Embankment and the River Trent. In the background are the bridges over the River Trent, while in the foreground are the bridges over Victoria Embankment, looking south.

This photograph was taken standing on one of the bridges over the River Trent, looking north. The goods yards which lay beyond have already been redeveloped with housing.

Having crossed over the Trent and turned round, looking north, with a dejected-looking signal post. There were four tracks at this point, with two going over each bridge.

In October 1985 demolition of the bridges over the River Trent had started, here looking west.

It is hard to tell in the previous photograph, but demolition of the west bridge was actually well under way as can be seen here, looking north from the south bank, ...

... and in another week or two, with the river much higher after heavy rain, demolition has started on the east bridge.