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Yes education and training is part of the process these days, but this has been going on for some time now. In the days of the navvies there were those that came from, the ag lab community and some worked their way up to foremen roles. At the Commonwealth Games last year the commentary suggested...

Whilst HS 2 is presently a major project in this region, there is also the expansion of the West Midlands Metro When the first line of the Metro was planned, there were those that opposed the scheme as it passed through Hodge Hill. The first line finally came to be built along the railway line...

Unfortunately Lloyd there are those that have protested since the start, such is free speech, but I agree this thread should be for the progress, which still continues despite those who deliberately look for the negative. Do they moan when a new road devastates an area and if you look at the...

I believe the reproduced image is one that can be described as artistic licence. There is no record of more than one locomotive used and the stock in the sale (July 1846) included a second class carriage and three luggage vans. However this image was used to great effect to promote the railway...

Yes I agree the class 08 was not made for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway. Derby did make a number of diesel electric shunters for use on the LMS, but these were numbered differently by British Rail And yes the Wikepedia data has its faults.

It could include any form of motion where steam provided the power for locomotion, but in this case, the railway locomotive used on the Wimbledon Common line had 12 in diameter cylinders with 18 in stroke and probably was built in a conventional manner but had flangeless wheels. Those plateway...

As the definition of a steam locomotive goes this engraving view must be on the margin. The locomotive was tried on an experimental railway laid for 2 miles across Wimbledon Common in 1845. The design used a loco with flat wheels running on wood rails and stabilizing wheels to hold the train in...

When it comes to canal transport, the Manchester firm of Pickfords came to operate extensive fly boat services of the narrow canal network with local depots in Wolverhampton and Birmingham. They then concentrated on railway transport, although they still had a local narrowboat fleet for railway...

The painting of 6441 looks like Carnforth, here is another view of Carnforth

The Bordesley rail bridge was reconstructed as part of the widening works carried out before the First World War by the Great Westen Railway and shows the former GWR line looking towards Small Heath when some of the tracks had been removed. Meanwhile, as work goes on to construct the new...

A more recent image of Gravelly Hill

Yes, the Dunstall Water Bridge formed part of a group of pictures that were part of the research for Silent Highways (History Press) to show the stream crossing over the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, nearTettenhall, as well as being reproduced in an Amberley Book. The naming Tunstall and...

Here is a 1986 view looking towards Curzon Street. In those days Royal Mail had taken over the Parcels depot and ceased the rail services but used it as a road distribution depot. Later all the structures in the foreground were removed, and now form part of the HS2 Station Site.

Now a return to a steam locomotive.

As noted in a previous thread this station was completed in 1976, but unlike the view that shows the Maglev Bridge over the road this was the view when first completed. The station has changed over time, but still retains the 4 platform arrangement. There is space for a fifth. In these times...

There have been occasions where steam trains have visited Birmingham International Station, but this image seems to be not that time or deserves to be in this thread

The view of Hickman's furnaces ( which were soon, if not already Stewart's & Lloyds) shows the blast furnaces, a canal basin (there were others into this vast site), and railway tracks. These furnaces had replaced other previous furnaces on the site which can be traced back to the first furnace...

I have tried to fathom Christain Wolmar's approach to railway history, but have yet to discover the heart of it. He has written several books and sometimes gets approached for "expert" opinions, but there is always a discrepancy in the detail. If he was talking about the Grand Junction...

Is it also the line at the back of the railway end at St. Andrews? Remember the smoke that would envelope the pitch in steam train days! Yes that was the case with the Birmingham City Football Club Ground. The direct route from Saltley that passed under the London Line had freight trains that...

Yes the railways did change with time. With signalling it was the practice at night to use a red light for danger, but early railways often used white to progress. Green was for caution. In our modern world the Power Signal Boxes have been replaced by the signalling centres. For Birmingham it...