Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
I've made this fading then and now video showing how Chaddesden has changed using a top-down view from 1948 lined up with a 2026 view, hope you enjoy my video and please leave a comment if you do. These are based on vertical aerial photos taken looking straight down from a plane.
Until I made this then and now video, I found it hard to visualise precisely where the Derby canal used to run around this section, but now you can clearly see where it ran.
I have centred the view over where Meadow Lane bridge used to be located over the former Derby Canal.
To get your bearings: This is a veiw of the south part of Chaddesden near Wyvern retail park.
Cutting diagonally through the 1948 view is the former Derby canal, in 2026 that route is occupied by Brian Clough Way (A52).
Aside from the Derby canal and A52 the most striking change in this view is the vast amount of railway tracks that were removed, this is where the Wyvern retail park was built.
Chaddesden sidings was essentially a huge freight marshalling yard. Wagons arriving in Derby could be sorted, assembled into trains and sent off in different directions.
It was part of the very extensive Midland Railway system around Derby. There were Marshalling sidings, Wagon repair workshops, Goods/Freight handling facilities and connections to the wider railway network. Chaddesden sidings continued as a marshalling yard until the early 1980's.
In the 1948 view there appears to be a water treatment place on the other side of the Derby canal, in 2026 this has three X shaped buildings on it.
View A : 16th April 1948
View B : Google Satellite view 2026
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to share the link to my video to anyone interested.
Best viewed on a large computer screen or smart TV as this is recorded in 4K resolution with great music so a real waste watching it on a small phone screen. Did you know you can cast it to your smart tv from the YouTube app?
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Music Credits :
'The Restoration' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
youtube.com/watch?v=22KHaYz8Row
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I've made this fading then and now video showing how Chaddesden has changed using a top-down view from 1948 lined up with a 2026 view, hope you enjoy my video and please leave a comment if you do. These are based on vertical aerial photos taken looking straight down from a plane.
Until I made this then and now video, I found it hard to visualise precisely where the Derby canal used to run around this section, but now you can clearly see where it ran.
I have centred the view over where Meadow Lane bridge used to be located over the former Derby Canal.
To get your bearings: This is a veiw of the south part of Chaddesden near Wyvern retail park.
Cutting diagonally through the 1948 view is the former Derby canal, in 2026 that route is occupied by Brian Clough Way (A52).
Aside from the Derby canal and A52 the most striking change in this view is the vast amount of railway tracks that were removed, this is where the Wyvern retail park was built.
Chaddesden sidings was essentially a huge freight marshalling yard. Wagons arriving in Derby could be sorted, assembled into trains and sent off in different directions.
It was part of the very extensive Midland Railway system around Derby. There were Marshalling sidings, Wagon repair workshops, Goods/Freight handling facilities and connections to the wider railway network. Chaddesden sidings continued as a marshalling yard until the early 1980's.
In the 1948 view there appears to be a water treatment place on the other side of the Derby canal, in 2026 this has three X shaped buildings on it.
View A : 16th April 1948
View B : Google Satellite view 2026
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to share the link to my video to anyone interested.
Best viewed on a large computer screen or smart TV as this is recorded in 4K resolution with great music so a real waste watching it on a small phone screen. Did you know you can cast it to your smart tv from the YouTube app?
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Music Credits :
'The Restoration' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
youtube.com/watch?v=22KHaYz8Row
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