ColinB
gone but not forgotten
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Colin
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Colin
Ah, still a few old buildings left, thank goodness. "Henry Wong" was previously a bank and is now a Chinese restaurant, and the whole place has more than its fair share of double yellow lines. A passenger line with a regular service into New Street would no doubt be very welcome, but I shudder to think what the fare would be today! Thanks for the pictures.
Maurice
I walked the Harborne Railway yesterday from Harborne to Somerfield Park. I tried to find the branch to M & B Cape Hill Brewery but did not find it. However I have since studied Google Satellite View and think I can see some evidence of the actual location. The problem today would be managing to get out onto the main line with the number of trains running today from Birmingham to Wolverhampton.
I also walked the line a few weeks ago - I used to live next to Icknield Port Road station - attached a bit of old mapping that might be of interest......
Thank you Harbornite. Yes it is not easy to see the filled in cutting near Rotton Park Road. I first came across the Harborne Railway at the point where the Cape Hill line crossed City Road. I then, during my time at George Dixons School, traced the still working line from Hagley Road to Harborne. As I could not at that time find the line north of Portland Road, I assumed that the line at City Road was the onward connection to the main line. It was not till I bought my first A-Z that I could trace it on the map.
That's a good map, Malvernian. Even today you can still just about make out the mound which marks the site of the island platform.
When you say "still working", do you mean that you can remember the line when it was operational?
When you say "still working", do you mean that you can remember the line when it was operational?
Was still operational when I lived next to it from 1956, until it closed in 1963 - the weekday morning goods train at about 7:15?, struggling up the 1 in 70 gradient under IPR was the family wake up call. Attached a pic someone sent me of the old IPR station site in that period. There's also a couple of movie clips of special trains on the line - search YouTube for "harborne railway"
That's right, it closed on 4th November 1963 and the last railtour to run on the line was two days before that. Do you remember seeing any trains on there?Yes, the line was still open for goods traffic until 1963. I was talking about the late 1950s
Oh I see! If it was city road then the loco would probably have been one of the Mitchells and Butlers locomotives that were used for shunting goods wagons round their brewery at Cape Hill. Can you remember if the locomotive was a tender or tank engine?I saw a loco shunting at Hagley Road Station on at least two occasions. I have a vague idea that I could have seen steam or a train when I was much younger traveling on a bus either on Hagley Road or City Road