Yes I read it and have just sold it on....my grandfather used to live right by the depot and used to spot from their attic room.....c1905......a bit before Ian Allan brought his train refs out...lol..... I seem to recall he and his brothers logged their kops on the walls and ceilings in pencil ha haYes you are correct with the 3E code, the depot was recoded 21E on 20/6/60. A further recode took place in september 1963 when it became 2H. Closure was in march 1967 and was demolished during 1968. I have an excellent book about the depot by Tony Higgs, well worth a read if you can find a copy.
I also worked with a guy who used to fire on Monument Lane. I could listen to him for hours, he should have wrote a book about it all.21E ??? ....... it was 3E in my spotting days way back in the 1950's !!! I had a friend that was a fireman there and he worked mostly on the Harborne line....... he had some interesting stories to tell and such a shame he never put pen to paper.
Fat Controller ????Looks like the guy in the suit is on the warpath!
This may be just a reflection, but it looks like a couple of ghostly figures are on the train“No. 70022 Tornado with a Manchester express passing the site of former Monument Lane station about a mile out of Birmingham (New Street) on April 1963. (P. J. Shoesmith)
BR standard Britannia Pacifics : a study of British Bailways.
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One of my relatives a boatman lived in one of the railway cottages along side the canal on this map he lived at no2. I have taken a walk along that canal it is difficult to see through the shrubbery if anything is left of the cottages.I think the local factories and the fact that every house had at least one coal fire was more harmful to the washing that a couple of trains a day!