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New Street Station 1967
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DavidGrain
master brummie
I am extremely annoyed as my ticket reads as a perfectly valid admission ticket. There is no mention on it to say that it is a lottery or ballot ticket. This is a complete misdescription but I have no idea what we can do about it.
As we have not lost any money, there is no point in complaining to Birmingham Trading Standards.
As we have not lost any money, there is no point in complaining to Birmingham Trading Standards.
Stokkie
master brummie
I think they quietly updated the website first to say it was a ballot and then to say there were 60 places. But you have my sympathy. Stokkie
Mark Tooze
master brummie
No - it was a ballot after all, although the tickets did not intimate this - you booked a timeslot and you got what appeared to be a valid ticket - then got an email last Thursday to say we were in a ballot after all. GGGRRRRRR......... Oh well - remember if it is too good to be true it almost certainly is........
So - my apologies Ian & Stokkie - you were right all along!!!!
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Stokkie
master brummie
I was unlucky too (naturally).
Mark Tooze
master brummie
Oh well - to drown our collective sorrows (as it appears no-one got a ticket) - I've dug into the negative files and found a wide selection of New St Station photos from the late 70's to mid 80's - many varieties of rolling stock (and weather...)
Firstly - who remembers the destination boards - genuine analogue technology:-
Next a selection of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) going to a variety of destinations:-
Firstly - who remembers the destination boards - genuine analogue technology:-
Next a selection of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) going to a variety of destinations:-
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Mark Tooze
master brummie
More DMU's:-
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Mark Tooze
master brummie
And some more - all with a Four Oaks destination blind (to date these look at the mailbags and brutes on the platforms):-
Mark Tooze
master brummie
You could also see lots of Electrical Multiple Units (EMU's) on the Coventry and Wolverhampton routes:-
And a printed timetable from 1984:-
And a printed timetable from 1984:-
Mark Tooze
master brummie
Engine-headed trains and InterCity 125's were also seen:-
Mark Tooze
master brummie
Finally - "in colour" - to a very cold day in the 80's when as Eric Morecambe would have said "its so cold they are laying people off at the bbbrrrrraaaasssssssssss factory"........
Could it be The Golden Eagle?
Annie
A Sparks
master brummie
I wondered that too, it was an Ansells pub, but I couldn't quite get my head round the angle of the view behind the train!
Lloyd
master brummie
Mark's photos bring back so many memories. The station platforms were always cold, even in summer. Winter was the worst time waiting there if your train was delayed. Passengers would wait at the top of the escalators on the bridge rather than stand on the cold platforms in winter. Or better still wait in the pub on the bridge, near the ticket barriers ! Viv.
An aeriel view, showing the shopping centre above the station. Viv
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
“D 5013 brings empty coaching stock into [Birmingham] (New Street) during July 1962. The decrepit L.N.W.B. sianal box obscures the site of the present [Birmingham Power box.”
Diesels in the west Midlands and central Wales. Bannister, Geoffrey F. Publication date 1975.
Diesels in the west Midlands and central Wales. Bannister, Geoffrey F. Publication date 1975.
paul stacey
master brummie
I remember that old signal box!!
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
“A feature of 1974 was the number of Western Region Class 52 diesel-hydraulics working into [Birmingham (New Street) on Paddington trains.
On 24 May No. 1068 Western Reliance, having brought in the 09.25 from Paddinaton to Platform 1. prepares to run round.”
Diesels in the west Midlands and central Wales. Bannister, Geoffrey F. Publication date 1975.
On 24 May No. 1068 Western Reliance, having brought in the 09.25 from Paddinaton to Platform 1. prepares to run round.”
Diesels in the west Midlands and central Wales. Bannister, Geoffrey F. Publication date 1975.
Radiorails
master brummie
Now that Class 52 is very elegant for a diesel locomotive. That looked great in maroon livery, but not in the drab BR colours.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
thanks p i have two in oo gauge
Radiorails
master brummie
Bimingham - not New Street, but Snow Hill.
mikeflan
master brummie
What a superb shot and such a reminder of ...how many hours did I spend on this spot...spotting ???
