DSCF4564 Trent Barton (trentbarton) 627 (FJ03 VWT) in Calverton - 11 Sep 2018

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (1304) – Wellglade owned Trent Barton (trentbarton) 627 (FJ03 VWT) seen in Mansfield Lane, Calverton (by St. Wilfred’s Square shopping precinct) when working the ‘Calverton Connection’ service. This service runs every 15 minutes to/from Nottingham operating as an anti-clockwise circular route around the village. The bus is a Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB new in August 2003.

Until the 1930s Calverton was a small forest village with an economy based on agriculture. In 1937 the first shaft of what would become Calverton Colliery was sunk but it was in the early 1950s that the colliery opened on a much larger scale bringing an expansion of the population as miners and their families came to live in newly built homes. The mine closed in 1999 and Calverton primarily became a commuter village to the city of Nottingham about 7 miles distant. There are pockets of industry around the village including the premises of clothing conglomerate VF Northern Europe Limited.