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Yes it was the junction between the main line to Wolverhampton and the link to the South Staffs line from Walsall to Dudley. The modern Metro stop is I think called Black Lake rather than Swan Village. Interestingly the South Staffs became LMS so GWR had to run over LMS tracks before they could...

I like the class 03 shunters for their pretending to look like steam engines.

Odd that it should come in on Platform 7 unless it was going off to Tyseley. I would have expected it to come in on the other side of the station perhaps into one of the bay platforms. 1957 was my era hanging about on Snow Hill. I was never a trainspotter, I just like watching the trains and...

I had always assumed that Perry Barr was part of Handsworth (part of Birmingham since 1911) but from the above Wikipedia, Perry Barr did not become part of Birmingham until 1928

Since 1911 when the City of Birmingham was enlarged considerably taking in parts of Staffordshire and Worcestershire

That just does not tie up with my memories of the old Snow Hill Station.

The old sign had 16 destinations, the present signpost has just 12 that I have counted. Thanks for your replies. I am sure I had seen the present sign post but could not remember where it was.

This from Post #18 I am sure I have seen it in more recent times, but I cannot remember where. Is it perhaps on one of the roundabouts on the approach roads to the airport? Several former airports listed.

University Station has just been rebuilt so I have not seen it yet which has a new bridge across the canal into the University. I was there briefly a few weeks ago but I had a tight change of trains so went across the old footbridge not really seeing anything.

That cannot have been by chance! Have just checked St Germain's Church next door has a B17 post code although its address is City Road.

The steep bank was presumably in Warley Woods. I used to live near Warley Woods by the Water Tower and used to walk the 2 miles to school every morning across the Woods, down St Mary's Road along Sandon Road and down City Road. In the afternoons I used to walk to Bearwood and get the bus back up...

I have read in one of my books that there was a tram siding into the Midland Red bus garage at Bearwood for the purposes of handling parcels being carried on the Tramway Parcels Express service. I don't remember which book I read that so I cannot look it up.

I went back to the school in (I think) 2004 when they were commemorating 100 years in City Road and the Assistant Head who was in charge of the event (I don't remember his name) was wearing an Old Dixonian tie.

Tom Long was very anti Franco when we managed to get him to talk about it in class. which was very easy to get him side tracked. Harold Bond who in my day was in charge of stationery handing out new exercise books from his cupboard off the ante-hall was an old Dixonian but I did not know that...

I thought it would have been the trip to Harborne in 1963. This trip also took in Halesowen. A poor quality cine film is available on YouTube A better quality film of the 1959 tour is

This model was known as the D5. A later version known as the D5B was the first Midland Red buses to have doors on the rear platform. See correction from Radiorails below. These buses were class AD2 which had bodies designed by Midland Red and therefore were similar to the bodies of the D5. My...

An interesting advert from 1944, currently on sale on ebay

I think the Rag Week as a parade of floats finished in the early 1970s.

Missed all that. I was at a meeting in the Council House on Friday and they had almost finished removing it. I had gone past on the tram the week before thinking I must come back.

I remember Bush House as a child as just the steel framework and my mother telling me that it had begun before the war. As far as I am aware the later Bush House was built in 1950s using the same framework but with a rounded corner on the junction of Cumberland Street and Broad Street rather...