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The famous "Bridge not far enough"!

Anochrome Ltd, which is a metal finishing company based on Reservoir Road, has confirmed the chemical spillage and said it had immediately notified the Environment Agency and Severn Trent Water, while members of the senior management team had remained on site to work with the authorities to...

RAF Wythall dealt with all WRAF demobs after the war. Not all WRAFs went there, but quite a few did and all others were administratively dealt with there.

Wow! Fancy this picture turning up! I have been involved with friends in bus preservation since my senior days at school, and several of us were asked to help one weekend prepare this to be towed away to a chap in Devon's collection which he kept in a large aircraft hanger on a closed RAF...

I believe so, although more on the southern bank.

Wonder if the length of canal bank had been a wharf, with access to the road for wagons?

I think there would have been several clocking points on the outer circle, and they would have been more or less opposite each other.

It looks a valuable and nicely restored / adapted home. I wonder if it has any listing status?

It has been shown before, but it is nice to know that it has been restored to working order and repainted in the correct colour (WMPTE repainted them dark blue). The ones at Wythall museum work when wound, which is done for special events and occasions.

I think the governmental knee jerk reaction to pollution etc. of banning the construction of fossil fuel based ICE vehicles should instead be a planned reduction, with less- polluting hybrid and bi-mode vehicles coming in first, possibly with cost incentives.

It will be interesting to see what impact the proposal to impose 'road fund licences' on EVs has on their sales...

Yes I have read all before my post. Just giving media verification to an unsupported statement.

Hopeful news? https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/fresh-hope-woodman-licence-application-29648468.amp

...and what would the (solar, wind or fossil) fuel requirement be to generate enough Hydrogen to run a fleet of, say, 20 locomotives in daily service? is it economically cheaper than using that power directly via overhead wires to electric trains? If so, it would be a game changer.

Please explain to those of us who know little of such things, what fuels and raw materials are used in the manufacture of compressed Hydrogen? Are there any waste or unused products remaining?

I can add that the tram lines this side of the lamp cleaner run to Steelhouse lane, for the Lichfield Road services (Short Heath, Erdington [The Yenton] and Pype Hayes).

Steam has an advantage over electricity in that it is compressible. Electricity needs batteries to store power, but steam at high pressures always wants to return to atmospheric pressure, hence it holds latent energy which can be transmitted to the machinery it is driving.

How does a swimming baths get burnt to the ground? Wait a few months and you'll see, A now departed relative was the first person to dive off the high board there, waited for it to open ready changed (with a dressing gown or house coat over her costume), rushed in climbed the steps & dived. She...

There was a number on the key, which was stamped onto a roll of paper along with the time. If there was a query about timekeeping, thte roll could be examined to see what time each driver used the clock, which was immediately before departing the timing point. It is said in the bus industry that...

I think they were employed on the mundane (but still skilled) jobs like tracing and copying blueprints. There were no photocopiers back then!