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I always thought 843 was the handsomest tram BCT ever had. Built by the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. of Loughborough, it has a lot in common with the monstrous electric cars they built for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway when they electrified in 1929. They were well over a foot wider and at...

Dobre Den Mihal! Nice pic, but I suspect the snow may not have been the cause of the derailment. Did the two vehicles meet on a trailing point perhaps? Or was it just poor track plus something dropped on a rail and buried under snow? Peter

I can't believe that pic was taken in Streetly Road, because that was a very undulating road, dropping from Stockland Green to the brook in the recreation grounds either side, and then climbing quite steeply to Short Heath Road. Tyburn Road I would write off because I can't remember anything but...

Lovely picture, Rupert. The blank space to the left which you mention was Colonnade Passage, where I was a regular customer at Kanga Model Supplies' shop for over ten years before I left Brum in 1959. As I have mentioned before, I went into their later shop in Burlington Passage about 20 years...

I think my first drink (apart from experimental ciders and beer my mum used to make and nobody fancied) was three months before my 18th birthday with my dad and other older men at the Bell in Belbroughton. The occasion was a 'choir supper' for the adult singers at St Michael's Church Handsworth...

That's a cracking photo Phil - must be one of the earliest of Brum in existence. It is a real record of life in those days. And it looks very murky indeed. Peter

Oh what memories! You had to be somebody to travel on the last No 2 tram. A neighbour of mine, Gerry Thompson, was a long-serving tram driver and he kindly tipped me off when he was driving the last Tyburn Road tram, knowing my interest. I got to Steelhouse Lane in time for the last 79 car...

Going back to Mike's post No 27, that is a beautiful drawing, well observed and accurately recorded, except for a prominent triviality. Car 719 spent over a decade at Moseley Road depot, where it might have run on the route 39. But in April 1939 when the Soho Road routes closed, together with...

mdh, The official name and postal address is: Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery Jewish Cemetery, Ridgeway, Erdington, Birmingham B23 7TD I haven't found any any email or website details, but their phone number is 0121-382 9900 I imagine they would be willing to give you an answer if you...

Silver Fox, The first electric trams were merely a replacement of horse (or steam)trams and went at that kind of pace. Add to that the narrow gauge and height of a double-deck car, and you will get of picture of the speeds they went at in the early days. Motor traffic wasn't very fast in the...

Do you remember the bulb horns on the old Ms? They projected out of the cab and made an 'ahoopah' sound. Can't see that on a post card though. Peter

Sorry this is slightly off-topic, but it makes me remember the quality of operation and maintenance on the Brum trams. Last Sunday night we had about eight inches of snow in Croydon, with several days warning. I came home on our local tram about 11.30 and it was the snow was already about 3...

I have a feeling it might be Ashted Row. Some of the houses had wide elaborate windows like that, as also in Great Brook Street. I well remember riding on the 10 tram either to Loxton Street Street School or to St Mark's Church, Washwood Heath, where my dad was organist but that was 60 years...

I have ridden only one Canadian trains, one-way from Montreal through to New York - a day's memorable journey, first on the right bank of Lake Champlain and then on the east bank of the Hudson River, moreorlesss hugging waterside a lot of the way. In the States we did a memorable trip from...

Mike Jee, Well done for spotting the unfinished railway viaduct connection near Curzon Street. If I were a betting person I would stake a penny or two on the viaduct never having been completed. In the few last years I have strolled around the area, and moreorless satisfied myself that the last...

That is a super map you have saved. It comes out very well, and you have seamed the halves so well you can hardly see the joint. I wish the libraries always did as well. I think I might have a go at copying that map - it must be out of copyright now. Meanwhile of course I have saved it. I am...

Here is a picture of the original 0-10-0 Midland Railway Lickey Banker of 1919, taken from my treasured copy of 'Locomotives of the LMS', pulished in 1947 shortly before nationalisation. It was used mainly on heavy freight trains, as it was powerful but rather unwieldy. The caption gives a bit...

I would agree with Dereklcg. I think it's Tyburn Road, for the simple reason that it appears to be moreorless midday and the sun is to the right of the picture. This mean that the road is running roughly east-west, while Bristol Roadruns more north - south. Elementary, my dear ChrisM! -Thanks...

Mike Jee, That is an interesting old map you produced - it shows the horse tram tracks as they were before electrification in 1903-4. And you can see the track going into the little 'depot' which was part of the undertaker B. Crowther's business. As a sideline he had a lease (I suppose we would...

I really fancu that picture of the steam tram on temporary track, Stitch. I recdently came across two articles written in 1965 by C Gilbert, then aged 70, who was born in Ravenhurst Street and, as he says, 'grew up with the steam trams'. He was an observant boy, with a technical bent, and I...