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I wonder if it was a mapper's error? What is the map date?

Another Ray Coxon photo of 342 at Bearwood, almost certainly taken at the same time. That's his bike propped up by the kerb, far right - it often appeared in his photos.

You are quite right. The transport committee decreed that buses should not carry adverts, although trams could. The tramway closure in 1953 ended a very necessary source of income, so the instruction was ended a short while after. Perhaps previously buses were for a better class of passenger?

Why does this not surprise me?!

What's OK, that no new construction is approved? Our railways, motorways, hospitals and schools enter a stasis for the next century or so? At least tax can be reduced if there's nothing new to pay for.

If you look at the difference in time and relative cost of building the original railways compared to HS2 (for instance), you must also look at the methods involved. Labour was cheap, there was no dole so those needing money to live had to work for pittance pay. there were skilled engineers who...

I think every 'national construction plan's cost is deliberately under estimated, be it railway, motorway, hospital, school or whatever. if the true cost were to be announced at the outset, absolutely nothing would get approved.

The strange appearance of car 342's upper deck ends was because it was the corporation's prototype conversion of open balcony cars to fully enclosed ones. Later versions had far more glass. I imagine this is a just pre WW2 photo, as the tram and pavement kerb have the white markings, but the...

No there isn't, but what if you'd have succeeded - the M6 would be miles away, the main road to Sutton, Lichfield Derby and north of there would still be through Aston Cross, and the many industries that rely on the motorway network for supply and delivery would be established in other places...

I do feel disappointed in the way this thread has turned. As its title suggests, it is for information on the progress to the new line, not a soap box for naysayers and nimbys. Perhaps there should be other boards for those who dislike the routes the city's progress is taking, I know there are...

Many other photos of Garner trucks can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/1763711@N23/pool/

The 34 was unusual as it was a route number used both for a tram service and its replacement bus service. I would assume that the bus service therefore used the same route (via Bristol Road & Holloway Head) and stops as the trams did.

View of a train of Prosser's Patent Guide Wheel Carriages. Note the keeper wheels, angled at about 45 degrees, which replaced the flanges and kept the locos and wagons on the flat wooden rails. The trackwork was noted as costing about half that of a normal "Steel Road", but doubtless would have...

Navigation Street, Stephenson Street would be to the left and Hill Street to the right. Note the overall roof to the LNWR side of New Street Station, destroyed by bombs in WW2. Note also the shelter is not a permanent structure and consists of two units, sitting on the roadway leaving the...

Originally D3839 was built at Crewe works and entered traffic in January 1960, allocated to Carnforth MPD. By 1962 it had transferred to the Birmingham area initially at Monument Lane MPD and then Bescot (where it would remain until withdrawn in 1993) when Monument Lane closed. It became 08 672...

Here's your chance...

I know I answered this in 2012, but there's an update. Still not taxed since end Jan 1989, but new V5 (log book) issued 2 May 2017, which suggests a change of owner or owner's address.

More likely shaking his head at the madness on the roads today! When I was starting my bus driving career at Midland Red, Digbeth, there was an old driver who had in his earlier days been a steam lorry driver, and I got a few stories out of him. One was about him speeding along the Chester...

Amazing to think that a place this new already has its own history of its past. I've been there a few times, but had forgotten when it looked like this!