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I liked the Charles the Fox cartoons. The Birmingham mail has had some good cartoons over the years

This photo (3rd August 1985) posted by Carl Buckley on the Railways of the Black Country and Birmingham FaceBook page was taken from Bordesley Station and shows the Camp Hill Line crossing over the Moor Street line.

A vault is a storage area. I have always assumed in the name of a pub, it just referred to the cellars.

Back when I used to go to London regularly on the London Liner, I used to park my car for the day in Miller Street bus garage. If I was going to London for a longer period, I was more likely to get a bus into the city centre and catch the London liner in Colmore Row. Of course when National...

A Bond Mini Car Convertible.

Actually I have not heard about what is happening with the new construction at Moor Street. I know that the effect in practice will be to make Moor Street and the new HS2 station into one large station. To bring additional trains into Moor Street from the Camp Hill Line will require bringing...

That is what I understand has always been the case. At one stage I was told that the Hereford/Worcester to Birmingham trains would be used on this route. I misunderstood that these trains would take this route into Birmingham so I queried what would happen to people from beyond Bromsgrove who...

I don't know what a semi-automatic gearbox is. The preselector gearbox, the driver selects the next gear and then to change gear presses the leftmost of the three pedals (I can't call it a clutch but I have forgotten what it is called). I have driven a modern bus with a fully automatic gearbox.

Midland Red was part of BET British Electrical Traction not British Automobile Traction. HA2500 was a one off prototype . It was rebuilt from an SOS Standard at Midland Red's Carlyle Works in Edgbaston with a forward half-cab.

St Andrews Junction is the point at which the Camp Hill Line leaves the line from Birmingham to Tyseley and on to Solihull and beyond. So the smoke could be from trains on either of these lines.

Back in the late 1960s was the first time I had a telephone on my desk as previously at other companies where I had worked there was just one internal phone and one GPO phone in each department. To me this was luxury especially as I could dial out without going through our internal switchboard...

I don't know if this is an official name but the above article shows the first time that I have heard this line being called the South Birmingham Line

Can you give us more details please as this sounds as if it might be the viaduct from Bordesley which was never completed.

Yes that is a three tier pulpit but the stairs look very steep to me. What is puzzling me is its position central in an apse. I would have to ask where is the alter? In a CofE parish church of that time I would have expected the alter to be back against the eastern wall. As you say it does look...

Yes that is Navigation Street on the other side of the station and the trams are in Hill Street heading out for the Bristol Road services

The main event in August 1957 was held in Sutton Park but there were satellite camping sites around the Birmingham area for British scouts.

I am trying to workout where that Harborne canal scene would have been painted. My guess is that it would possibly be near Stonehouse Lane in what is now called Old Quarry Park where the Dudley No. 2 Canal emerged from the Lapal Tunnel. That is assuming that St Peter's church would have been...

I know this is not Birmingham but I thought it would be of interest to see how changing from manual to automatic was described back in 1934. Taken from the Didcot Railway Centre Facebook page. What is interesting was that even if you make an automatic call from within Paddington Station you...

Checking the 1885/87 map. the Edgbaston Assembly Rooms were in Francis Road at the junction with Hagley Road.

The numbers were allocated to areas of the city. Central Birmingham had numbers in the 200 and 600 series allowing CEN and MID to keep their numbers North East Birmingham had numbers in the 300 series South West Birmingham had numbers in the 400 series allowing HAR to keep it numbers North West...