Description: Looking east from the Erewash Canal towards Bennerley Junction on the Erewash Valley main line with Bennerley Disposal Point beyond. The latter was used for processing and loading coal obtained from adjoining opencast sites and was located on the site of Bennerley (previously Awsworth) Ironworks, which had closed c 1933. The brick buildings visible in this view survived from the ironworks but shortly afterwards work began to modernise the disposal point with a new screening plant and loading bunker, which resulted in their demolition. The new facilities, in turn, eventually became redundant and have likewise since been removed.
Bennerley Junction was where the Midland Railway's branch running via Kimberley and Watnall to Basford Junction, Nottingham diverged. This line was closed as a through route as early as 1917 but a stub at the Bennerley end (known as Bennerley Sidings) was thereafter retained to access first the ironworks and then the disposal point. A rake of loaded HAA coal wagons can be picked out here standing on the truncated branch.