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There are structures such as the Bordesley Viaduct (Trinity Street to Curzon Street) which no longer have railway tracks. With this Bordesley Viaduct the track that only ever covered part of the viaduct was used as part of the Goods Depot operation at the GWR Trinity Street depot. Those that...

The wording at the bottom of the plate is of interest as the principal North Staffordshire Railway offices were at Stoke on Trent. Yet Stone Station is an impressive building that still remains. The Caldon Canal was part of the Trent & Mersey Canal network, which the North Staffordshire Railway...

It seems that HS 2 is like Marmite, people either love it or hate it. Ever since it was first proposed there have been groups of people dedicated to ensuring that it never was made, but it is here and is under construction. Those who oppose it like other pressure groups (about oil, animal...

As a circle bus, the 11 is the oldest of the circle routes in Brum and only that and the 8 might be termed as that now The word "termed" is carefully chosen as the 11 presently is NOT a circle bus. Now the 11 is a disaster, and some people suggest driver shortages as a reason. but waiting for...

The West Midlands Metro still awaits an opening date for the line to Wolverhampton Station, and contractors steadily progress with the extension from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill and tracks are being laid along sections of Digbeth as the visible side of metro construction reaches that spot.

I would like to recognize the first phase at Stechford. The original county road to Yardley passed along a similar route as this modern access road. That road crossed the London & Birmingham Railway on the level and then climbed up a hill. There was a London & Birmingham Railway crossing keepers...

As a campaign has started to have blue plaques to celebrated Neville Chamberlain, industrialist, politician and a prime minister, there is the concern of him being "air brushed" from history. The appeasement campaign with Adolph Hitler is seen as the main cause for the lack of a blue plaque in...

Regarding Ricard Dye, the posts related to adverse comments about HS 2 should be on another thread. This thread concerns HS 2 progress. Britain is lacking behind other railway operators with regard to High Speed progress, and anything that shows positive progress in this regard is important. A...

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...