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A description of the route showed- Notes on Journey 30. The engine crew from Derby were Driver J. T. Martin and Fireman J. T. A. Howell of Gloucester Motive Power Depot, who had worked a northbound express from Gloucester that morning via Sutton Coldfield, arriving at Derby at 1.3 pm. Driver...

The official report makes interesting reading A section is attached- Sutton Coldfield Accident 27/01/1955 The train concerned was the 12.15 pm. Express from York to Bristol via Sheffield, Derby, Burton- on-Trent and Birmingham, comprising ten bogie coaches hauled by a 4-6-0 type mixed...

When I worked on the Sutton line in the 1980's there were staff who remembered the accident John Bassett was the Railway Chaplain

The 50 in ordnance survey shows the tram track ending opposite the grand hotel

So it would seem that the 1880's image is of the front of the Great Western Arcade and the wall to the right would be consistent with the wall of the Blue Coat School. The tramway came up Snow Hill and turned into Colmore Row then according to the o/s maps, but accounts of the cable tram have...

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An early view of Snow Hill station with Hotel which may be pre 1900. It shows the cable tramway and horse drawn omnibuses

And yes in the Birmingham Public Works minutes there is a letter about Trains work in London 1861 which he considered was "successful"

in 1979 Hudswell Clarke D 1009 of 1956 0-4-0DM was recorded at the Cadbury -Schweppes factory at Somerdale, Avon and was named SOMERDALE The number 14 was added after preservation By then the North British Loco at Bourneville had been disposed of and the railway system closed

It is generally recognised that Parliament authority was needed for Street Tramway construction but George Train from Boston in America seems to achieve his tramways through local permission. The Birmingham Public Works Committee records his letter of 28th July 1860 which suggested a street...

The Hailstones were also Brewers, Linda Zaffardi has spent many years following their history

Cadbury No 14 was a North British diesel locomotive, the No 14 shown here was delivered new to the Fry / Cadbury Factory from Hudswell Clark and although it spent time in the Cadbury Bournville Car Park it never worked on the Bournville Railway Network.

The talk we had at the BMI regarding Vintage Trains was worthwhile and the speaker traced the development of Tyseley Depot from the 1960s to the present time. There was a time when it was a museum, but now it is a working depot for the locomotives owned by Vintage Trains and also the workshops...

This engine was part of the exhibits at the 1862 Great Exhibition May were Birmingham maker of fixed steam engines

Interesting facts JET 1 was made at the Rover Factory at Solihull This image is from the Science Museum Collection- Fortunately this car has survived and can be seen at the Science Museum in London

The closure of the thread on Steam Sheds has prevented further comments and so a new thread is needed to complete the picture. In the early days of steam, the London & Birmingham Railway had a roundhouse shed at Curzon Street which has featured in this forum The Grand Junction straight shed was...

Snow Hill Station has had three major makeovers, firstly in the 1870's and then during the 1900's and finally when the station was reopened to traffic by British Rail. The Station Hotel run by GWR and later as part of British Railways hotel group lasted until the 1960's. Yet there was a plan to...

Rover made a gas turbine car, Reg JET 1 Does anybody know what happened to it ?

Attached is an 1896 image of an advert published in and London & North Western Guide

Yes Snell, Brice and Co were early canal carriers, they belonged to a changing group that specialised in the carriage of merchandise along the canal network. The wharf was one of a group distributed along the banks of the canal in Birmingham where goods were sent and received across a network...