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Railway's in the 50's

I certainly recall doing some train-spotting trips from New Street to Tamworth and back and finding that when you banged the carriage seats, clouds of dust rose from them. However nothing can diminish the joy of seeing the hordes of locomotives in Saltley depot. As we passed by quite slowly, we still failed to "cop" all the locos. They were so numerous, you couldn't write the numbers down fast enough!
 
mw0njm. said:
Midland 0-6-0 No 58271 at Monument Lane shed in Birmingham. This superb loco was built by Neilson & Co in Glasgow in 1896 and remained in service until 1961.
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58271 at Harborne, about to return to New Street, with 58283 on the rear. no H&s then
(photo: Robert Darlaston) View attachment 191039
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How useful that line would be now? Small fast units in & out of New Street and with modern signalling methods the old hold-ups which bedevilled that line decades ago would be no problem.
 
TerryD147 said:
I certainly recall doing some train-spotting trips from New Street to Tamworth and back and finding that when you banged the carriage seats, clouds of dust rose from them. However nothing can diminish the joy of seeing the hordes of locomotives in Saltley depot. As we passed by quite slowly, we still failed to "cop" all the locos. They were so numerous, you couldn't write the numbers down fast enough!
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svr is like that:grinning:
 
On Portillo's trip yesterday in Australia they had a train running on electric supplied by just solar panels on the roof, no overhead cables or live rail.
 
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