DSCF4559 Trent Barton (trentbarton) 627 (FJ03 VWT) in Calverton - 11 Sep 2018

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (1251) – Wellglade owned Trent Barton (trentbarton) 630 (FJ03 VWT), a Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB new in August 2003, seen arriving in Calverton working the ‘Calverton Connection’ service. This service runs every 15 minutes to/from Nottingham operating as an anti-clockwise circular route around the village starting at this point and finally emerging from the road on the left. Different messages are carried on the rear panels of the buses, this one ‘pop to the shops in Arnold’. Arnold being a Nottingham suburb along the line of route.

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.