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On a related subject, miners in local coal and ironstone mines in South Staffordshire & East Worcestershire faced many underground issues which included the inundation. Water held back in old workings could be released into the mine where the miners were at work with serious and sometimes fatal...

A view from the Railway Magazine of 1901 which shows the Snow Hill Side of the station and cable tramway tracks And that magazine also published a map of the station as it was before reconstruction

There were also the drownings in the line of work as boatmen, or canal workers, fell into the canal.

There were also the Boatmens Missions where instruction for Children was conducted to a limited extent as well as Religious services there.

Broad Street, London was on the North London Railway trains that became part of the London & North Western Railway System Moor Street station was built by the Great Western Station in Birmingham, when their railways in Birmingham were improved and widened south to Olton as well as making a new...

The MOT report has the following image to show where the train ended up

A description of the route showed- Notes on Journey 30. The engine crew from Derby were Driver J. T. Martin and Fireman J. T. A. Howell of Gloucester Motive Power Depot, who had worked a northbound express from Gloucester that morning via Sutton Coldfield, arriving at Derby at 1.3 pm. Driver...

The official report makes interesting reading A section is attached- Sutton Coldfield Accident 27/01/1955 The train concerned was the 12.15 pm. Express from York to Bristol via Sheffield, Derby, Burton- on-Trent and Birmingham, comprising ten bogie coaches hauled by a 4-6-0 type mixed...

When I worked on the Sutton line in the 1980's there were staff who remembered the accident John Bassett was the Railway Chaplain

The 50 in ordnance survey shows the tram track ending opposite the grand hotel

So it would seem that the 1880's image is of the front of the Great Western Arcade and the wall to the right would be consistent with the wall of the Blue Coat School. The tramway came up Snow Hill and turned into Colmore Row then according to the o/s maps, but accounts of the cable tram have...

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An early view of Snow Hill station with Hotel which may be pre 1900. It shows the cable tramway and horse drawn omnibuses

And yes in the Birmingham Public Works minutes there is a letter about Trains work in London 1861 which he considered was "successful"

in 1979 Hudswell Clarke D 1009 of 1956 0-4-0DM was recorded at the Cadbury -Schweppes factory at Somerdale, Avon and was named SOMERDALE The number 14 was added after preservation By then the North British Loco at Bourneville had been disposed of and the railway system closed