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!