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Hereford & Wellington at least have now completely gone. Coalville garage closed and is now occupied by the Midland Roofing Co., retaining the 'Midland' stonework in the road facing wall. Leicester Southgate Street has been replaced with student accommodation, but retains the former Peacock Lane...

It depends when you mean. I joined Midland Red at Digbeth in 1974, and over the next 4 decades I drove coaches contracted on National Express services to Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea, the latter sometimes via Hereford and "the valleys". Barry Island was a common place for summer Saturday...

KRP 562V was a Leyland National new to United Counties, Northamptonshire, in 1979.

J921 TUK was an ACE (Alternative Chassis Engineering) 'Cougar' [one of only two built] with a Willowbrook (of Loughborough) 40 seat bus body new to Cave's in October 1991.

Glad they are of use. Yes to the red backed plates, there's a GWR loco at the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway (clever reuse of GWR!) in early BR livery with red-backed name & number plates, and I researched why on my return home. Apparently it is correct for the first repaints after...

This view (mine) of a mid to late-50s Matissa track recording car has some offices on the eastern end of platform 1 visible.

As you say, there's always a loco in prime place, that's what the shot is of mainly. Even this painting, although coloured does not show much of the background.

Leslie George Millard was 43 years old in 1940 and lived with wife Florence Amelia (nee Perks), and daughter Edith at 23 Wellfield Road, Hall Green.

Sign in a butcher's shop - "Mothers are requested not to sit babies on the bacon slicer as we are getting behind with our orders"!

In view of the council's bankruptcy and outstanding 'equality' wage debts, I can't see and funding being available for this (or, to be honest, and other non-essential) project. It would be mis-spending of public funds. The building can only be saved by offering it to a society or museum...

It used to look like this - horrible, but now it's worse!

'Listing' (particularly to grade 2) or classing buildings as 'heritage' means nothing to Birmingham City Council. Nothing will stand in the way of so-called "progress" to get some councillor's (or his company's) pet project going. We've seen it so many times before, with pockets being lined from...

(Sorry, Off topic I know) - I see they've wallpapered over the building that used to be covered in saucepan lids.

'The Matador' was at the top of the ramp, and the 'Army & Navy Stores' (Oswald Bailey) below it at ground level.

I did wonder if the trains were available for the general public to use. Presumably there was a booking office at Longbridge station?

Those were Guy Arabs Brian, using a very similar gearbox and a pedal to effect the change. Later versions of the box in Rear engined chassis were directly selected using air pressure, sometimes electrically operated.

There needs to be a 'maximum wait time', say 5 minutes, and CCTV to record offenders.

I live just off Maypole Lane, so it is the nearest station for trains to New St for me. (The other nearest, Yardley Wood, only serves the Snow Hill line.) I used to park at Kings Norton (Cotteridge) station to get the train to town or the QE Hospital, but I don't have a car now so would use the...

Why? there is no provision for car parking, so other than cyclists and pedestrians there should be little extra traffic.

Weird machines.