What a blast from the past! I never remember it being that expensive & I always seemed to mess up the letters!
I remember those signs........It's hard to believe that retention tanks were not made mandatory much earlier! :-(View attachment 190222
toilets on UK trains
In UK trains built before 1980, ‘direct discharge technology’ was used for the toilets – basically they emptied straight onto the track, with the aid of water flushed from a tank. That changed in 1981 when the first train carriages with retention tanks were supplied. Yet it wasn’t until 1996 that all new rolling stock was fitted with tanks for effluent retention. And in 2018 10% of Britain’s train carriages were still disposing toilet waste straight onto the railway tracks.
Movin right along!wow they are giving it some wellie
So the New Street to Euston line was modernised and electrified and the Snow Hill route abandoned and the station demolished. Way to go, BR!The state of the railways in February 1960.
(Birmingham Weekly Post)
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What is a " Shunt Frame" Mark?Aston Signaling Centre en-route to New St Station:-
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Look to the right of the door - it still has its original "Vauxhall Shunt Frame" sign!
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I wonder if this is the only genuine signal box still working in the Birmingham area? Off the top of my head I cannot think of another one.......
Thanks Mark. I know the route fairly well and do look at all the old track etc. There was a big goods yard in Erdington too.I think it was the signal box that controlled the (then extensive) carriage sidings in and around Vauxhall and Duddeston Station - but not 100% sure! Use for shunting purposes only - not for actual trains.
Note - most of the track for these either side of the station is still extant under the trees and undergrowth.
14th July 1951 this locomotive arrived at Birmingham. 46223 Pricess Alice is at the head of a train from the Wolverhampton direction, she is just clear of Navigation St bridge. The loco was built at Crewe 31/07/1937 and was
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