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Harborne Railway

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
 
DavidGrain said:
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
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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?

On another note, here's some more pictures of the branch: https://www.keithhoban.com/harbranch.htm

I have also seen both videos on youtube of railtours that visited the branch, one was in 1959 and the other was in 1963.
 
The locos I saw shunting in Hagley Road Station were tank engines. I cannot be more specific as, surprisingly perhaps, I was never a trainspotter in spite of the hours I spent on both New Street and Snow Hill watching the trains. My interest was more in watching the operations than in identifying and recording engines
 
Hello! I'm doing research on the M&B railway that spurred off the Harborne branch near Rotton Park, ran down the side of the sports pitches, under city road and past another sports areas and into the brewery. Love to speak with anyone who has memories of the railway, worked on the railway or has any photos of the railway. I've also got a bit a of mystery that I'm hoping you might be able to solve.
 
I would sometimes play on a derelict "Bomb site" next to the line on the south side of Hagley Road, and would sometimes see a train coming from Harborne. A few coal trucks and vans probably from the Chad Valley toy factory. I also saw the very last train, an ex LMS 'black five' I think, hauling bogie flat wagons, with a caterpillar-tracked crane following it lifting the track sections onto the wagons. :-(
 
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