Great Central Railway
- Mansfield Road Tunnel 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 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 (52°57′05″N 1°08′46″W / 52.9513°N 1.1461°W / 52.9513; -1.1461Coordinates: 52°57′05″N 1°08′46″W / 52.9513°N 1.1461°W / 52.9513; -1.1461) 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 (418 yards) long 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 to its terminus at Midland Railway Station. The Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (CCAN) has recently been built in the railway cutting in which the South Portal resides.
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