SuperNova
*Bumped to the top of my Photostream after being reprocessed Nov 24 to sort out a burnt out sky in jpeg, plus contrast issues. Trams still aren't running here 6 years later, although track is actually/finally being laid now after many delays.*
Original post text:
The South Staffordshire Line, Golds Hill, Wednesbury. This'll be the third or fourth shot I've posted of this burnt out car, but it is the gift that keeps giving.
The car's a Vauxhall Nova - manufactured around 1991/92, it was presumably driven up here in the dark from a local scrapyard and set alight by vandals after they hit the in situ rails.
Bridge 28 where this was taken was originally a works access from nearby workers' cottages which have long since been demolished. Later on in the 60's over 1,000 steam locomotives crossed this point into the former Cashmore's scrapyard, also now long since closed.
Within five years there will be trams running along this line. The section just beyond the car has optimistically been earmarked for a tram stop, serving the Golds Hill regeneration zone. The local residents in the remains of Golds Hill village, surrounded by industrial development, are certainly deserving of improved transport links since the one road through there - Eagle Lane - was cut off as a through route 20 years ago.
SuperNova
*Bumped to the top of my Photostream after being reprocessed Nov 24 to sort out a burnt out sky in jpeg, plus contrast issues. Trams still aren't running here 6 years later, although track is actually/finally being laid now after many delays.*
Original post text:
The South Staffordshire Line, Golds Hill, Wednesbury. This'll be the third or fourth shot I've posted of this burnt out car, but it is the gift that keeps giving.
The car's a Vauxhall Nova - manufactured around 1991/92, it was presumably driven up here in the dark from a local scrapyard and set alight by vandals after they hit the in situ rails.
Bridge 28 where this was taken was originally a works access from nearby workers' cottages which have long since been demolished. Later on in the 60's over 1,000 steam locomotives crossed this point into the former Cashmore's scrapyard, also now long since closed.
Within five years there will be trams running along this line. The section just beyond the car has optimistically been earmarked for a tram stop, serving the Golds Hill regeneration zone. The local residents in the remains of Golds Hill village, surrounded by industrial development, are certainly deserving of improved transport links since the one road through there - Eagle Lane - was cut off as a through route 20 years ago.