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The rural nature of the Kinver line is illustrated by this pencil drawing by J Stanley Webb of the farm track crossing at Dunsley Meadows, just outside Kinver. The 'feel' of this rural crossing was accurately captured in the road crossing of the tramway at the Black Country Museum at Dudley.
https://www.pbase.com/belvedere/image/69406498
'Excursion' tram services were operated during summer months to Kinver from Birmingham and Smethwick (Windmill Lane) via Oldbury, Tividale, Dudley, Brierley Hill and Amblecote, often using the large bogie single deck cars associated normally with the Cradley Heath area routes, as double deckers were not permitted on the off-road section of the Kinver route. In 1915, despite the country being at war, these excursions netted £1,815.
Kinver was to the Black country what the Lickeys would become to Birmingham, once the tramway reached there.
https://www.pbase.com/belvedere/image/69406498
'Excursion' tram services were operated during summer months to Kinver from Birmingham and Smethwick (Windmill Lane) via Oldbury, Tividale, Dudley, Brierley Hill and Amblecote, often using the large bogie single deck cars associated normally with the Cradley Heath area routes, as double deckers were not permitted on the off-road section of the Kinver route. In 1915, despite the country being at war, these excursions netted £1,815.
Kinver was to the Black country what the Lickeys would become to Birmingham, once the tramway reached there.
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