On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:45:59 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 16:05:22 on Thu, 26 Nov
2015, d remarked:
Its a mystery to me why they didn't route a branch of the tram line through
it.
They head straight for it then veer off at the last moment. The tunnels
northern
portal is at the victoria centre where they could have had a stop and then
headed off up the A60.

On one hand that route misses out the main square, Nottingham Trent
University etc; on the other hand they'd have ended up with a tramline
bisecting two underground car parks and quite probably a lot of
expensive tunnel repairs to do.

So the tunnels have been compromised? I assumed they were still intact.

Victoria Station was on top of the hill, in a deep cutting with a tunnel
mouth at either end. As far as I know the tunnels in both directions are
intact. The massive shopping centre car park is built from track level
upwards, and the shops themselves are at ground and first flooe level
beneath the flats and the grey-roofed 'shed'. The northern part of the
cutting has a separate car park with an adjacent bus station at ground
level.

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/nottingham-victoria.jpg

You can see the cutting best between A (the northern portal) and D
(where a fraction of the old grey-brick retaining wall is viable.

The southern portal is at C, and has a small building on the much
smaller cutting.

And, right at the center of the view is the only remaining part of
Nottingham Victoria Station, the clock tower.