Recent content by allan tebbs

sorry on last post incorrect image inserted for Tamworth train

wow those memories are flooding back my arrival at New Street was always via Queens Drive so you could arrive straight at the platform level then along to platform 10 for the Tamworth train...

How wonderful to be that guy in charge of that fantastic machine and to sit there and contemplate the coming days events

I have put the full copies.of the manuals now on ebay.to allow Full Download of whole album in PDF for £4.99.Snow Hill plus others available.See ebay "Birmingham new street 1954"

opening pages for New Street

What memories these posts bring back Rushing down Queens Drive In in 1954 towards the main station platform openings then a frantic search of the West side of the station to see what had already arrived from London and the North (platforms 6 & 7 ).Then straight down to the East end of 7 to...

I have now made available copies of all my 1954 new style print out for Tamworth Station (high and low level) on Ebay to download in PDF format (search Tamworth 1954) also available are in same format copies for Euston ,Birmingham New St, Nuneaton, Snow Hill , Bristol , Paddington, Leamington...

Bet the kids were not pleased being turfed out of their field that day !

I was a child of "The Tamworth Fields" between 1953 and 1955 having many many memories of shouts of "Clangers" and "Baby Clangers" "semi on the main" and hurried visits to the cafe to top up on supplies while trying not to miss any "cops" (not the police kind) Now in my 80s and with time on...