The Hucknall Road Walkway, running alongside Hucknall Road towards Tesco and beyond,  is the track bed of a line built by the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) in 1880 and which ran initially to Hucknall and Annesley, before later being extended to Kirkby in Ashfield. This line closed to passengers in the 1931, but it continued to be used for freight until the 1960s.
Bulwell Forest Station, just opposite the Bulwell Golf  Clubhouse fell into disuse and only a  few foundation remains can now be seen.

All this was prior to the construction of the estate, and Bestwood Park Drive.

The area was, at that time farmland occupied mainly by Rise Farm and Top Valley Farm.  Access from Hucknall Road was via an underpass (See picture below). There was no bridge at Bestwood Park Drive, as might seem to be the case when looking at the embankments at the traffic lights, the line having closed before the estate was built.

On the far side of Bulwell Common (the western edge) was the line for the Great Central Railway (G.C.R) . This was the last main line built to London and it opened to passengers in 1900. Trains from Manchester and Sheffield passed alongside the Common and through Bulwell Common Station on their way to Marylebone

Fish trains regularly used this line and I think they originated at Grimsby or Hull and ran to faster passenger train timings, so were frequently hauled by passenger locomotives. They stopped at / passed through Nottingham Victoria (now the shopping centre) , and it was said that the station would stink of fish for ages afterwards, thanks to the sheltered nature of its location