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The locomotive head codes are of interest as they show a rough destination for the train V can be Western Region O can be Southern Region N was used until 1967 for trains destined for the North Eastern Region For example

A view of locomotive haulage at New Street in 1972

The reconstruction of Birmingham New Street provided the means to divert passenger services that previously used Snow Hill to New Street. The station was in principal an underground station placed under a shopping centre with booking offices on the floor above and parcels offices in Station...

That iron was used is perhaps correct 1878 was the re start of work with a new contractor. There was some earlier work previously

On 6th June 1975 the Euston to Glasgow sleeper train derailed at Nuneaton with loss of life Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the accident The original sleeper train loco 86242 failed at Kings Langley and had another locomotive attached to the front 86006 to take the train forward with...

The trestle viaduct was completed by 1881 when it was tested by a pair of heavy locomotives, however the Board of Trade came to recommend additional side strengthening which was done by the summer of 1882. The engineer for the Halesowen Railway Company who financed construction was Edward...

The Stockton & Darlington was not the first public railway although from 1826 is credited with having the first public passenger time table for the service that was then horse worked. Steam locomotives on the Stockton and Darlington Railway hauled freight as a public railway, although the first...

There was a time in the early 1830's when there were carriage companies formed for the purpose of using steam power to haul carriages along the turnpikes and common roads. They included the use of Dr William Church's carriage which was assembled at Bordesley Green and the steam drag of Heaton...

The image of the new viaduct at Duddeston shows the gradual construction of that structure before being moved into place. It is called the Bellingham Viaduct after the England Football player.

The reconstruction of the Dudley Canal at Selly Oak has a new stretch to the junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Lapal Tunnel along this route had many problems with closures happening for repair even at earlier times, G R Jebb had a tramway laid in the tunnel to make repairs to...

It should noted that the station is Hagley Road and not Hagley as the title of the thread suggests. Hagley is on the line to Kidderminster and was built for the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. Although the present station building is GWR later design

This image from 1959 (courtesy Rail Forum) show the locomotive This view was at Wellingborough, Hornby later produced a model of the locomotive.

The developers continue to press forward with their scheme to make this tall block beside the canal at Gas Street and was recently mentioned on the local BBC News TV recently. It is quite a narrow strip of land beside the canal which was built up when built above the actual ground level...

Wellwick Farm near Wendover was mentioned in 2024 as an important site, but in Birmingham there have been sites of industrial interest that the HS 2 Archeology group have little regard to explore such as had been possible at Bromford before work commenced and at Curzon Street they had no...

On a related subject, miners in local coal and ironstone mines in South Staffordshire & East Worcestershire faced many underground issues which included the inundation. Water held back in old workings could be released into the mine where the miners were at work with serious and sometimes fatal...

A view from the Railway Magazine of 1901 which shows the Snow Hill Side of the station and cable tramway tracks And that magazine also published a map of the station as it was before reconstruction

There were also the drownings in the line of work as boatmen, or canal workers, fell into the canal.

There were also the Boatmens Missions where instruction for Children was conducted to a limited extent as well as Religious services there.

Broad Street, London was on the North London Railway trains that became part of the London & North Western Railway System Moor Street station was built by the Great Western Station in Birmingham, when their railways in Birmingham were improved and widened south to Olton as well as making a new...

The MOT report has the following image to show where the train ended up