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In answer to questions from MikeGee and Bob Davis. I have not been into Broad Street for nearly two years for obvious reasons. Every time I went into Birmingham city centre, I regarded it as a Magical Mystery Tour as the bus seemed to take a different route each time. The only open stretch of...

https://www.birminghamupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/andy_metro_rail_map-03feb19vf-01-1024x724.jpeg First time I saw this February last year my first thought was 'There must be a Mayoral election comming up' Please, this is not a political comment. Merely an observation.

I am adding this recent video for information as it explains the whole of the plans for the tram extensions. You have to excuse this guy's pronounciations of place names.

Viv, This video will show you the whole route from Wolverhampton to Centenary Square. If, the first time you watch it you can fast forward about 28 minutes to just get the Birmingham part

Yes but this is only temporary 11A will run Acocks Green to Perry Barr and a separate bus will run 11A Erdington to Acocks Green 11C will run Acocks Green to Erdington and a separate bus will run 11C Perry Barr to Acocks Green So you will have to change buses if your journey goes through...

Neither did I, I was just looking for a magazine article I had read which said about them coming to Birmingham

I just Googled Hydrogen buses Birmingham https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/727/hydrogen_buses_coming_to_birmingham_next_spring

JOJ was reserved for Birmingham Corporation buses so they had all 999 of those registrations. The buses were known as 'Birmingham Standards' as the order to re-equip after WWII was too big for one bus builder to handle all at once so the order was spread over several chasis, engine and body...

I once led a guided walk which started from the Hilton Garden Inn in Brindley Place where the party were staying. For a bit of fun, I handed out copies of the OS map from 1902 and told them if they got lost, look for the Islington Tube Works at the centre of the map as that was now the site of...

So that was the Grand Junction Railway station platform. Most photos show the London & Birmingham Railway Station platforms.

I remember a discussion at a local history session when someone insisted that the government did nothing until September 1939. It was quite an argument when it had to be poiunted out to him that airraid shelters were in place and that shaddow factories had been built and in production before...

As I have read it but it was so long ago that I do not know which book it was in. Birmingham took all the fares collected within the Birmingham city boundary and West Bromwich Corporation took all the fares collected outside the city boundary irrespective of which bus they were collected on. The...

Birmingham Corporation and Midland Red had a no competition agreement dating from 1914 which said that Midland Red had to charge higher fares on journeys inside the city boundary and the Corporation could not operate outside the city boundary. This did not apply on the Dudley Road routes as that...

All I can say is that it has triggered a memory but I can't say from when or where at New Street Station. I would have been more concerned at looking down at my feet when travelling down those escalators.

I used to think Rackhams Food Hall was great. Sorry when it closed.

This news about work to start on the Dudley Canal at Selly Oak. Report is taken from TheBusinessDesk.com Regional Business News for the West Midlands Dudley canal work to begin after £300,000 contract signed How the plans stack up News June 14 2021 Sam Metcalf The Lapal Canal Trust has...

Also Holt Fleet was not on the railway.

Look out for this next Monday 14th June at 18.15. A Talk on the History of the Midland Red by Roger Torode to the Friends of the London Transport Museum. The video will remain avialable on You Tube if you cannot see it at the time...

Actually it was well known that the CM5T, the first motorway coach could do 100 mph on the motorway. They used to do Birmingham to London in 2 hours 15 minutes and that was before the M6 was built so they went on the A45 Coventry ByPass and the M45. There was the notorious incident when 4 of...

I remember the Midland Red parcel service although I never used it but did once or twice see parcels under the stairs. I used to collect timetable books and in the details it said tht you could use the bus to post a letter in the nearest large town. You handed the stamped letter to the conductor...