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Birmingham is a major city in England’s West Midlands region, with multiple Industrial Revolution-era landmarks that speak to its 18th-century history as a manufacturing powerhouse. It’s also home to a network of canals, many of which radiate from Sherborne Wharf and are now lined with trendy cafes and bars. In the city centre, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is known for pre-Raphaelite masterpieces.
Virgin Trains Class 221 Super Voyager 221112 "Ferdinand Magellan" departs from Birmingham New Street with the 12:33 5L91 Central Rivers depot to London Euston, empty coaching stock.
A picture from 1990, when Smith's of Tysoe (trading as 'Yourbus'), were still an independent bus operator engaged in a fierce bus war with West Midlands Travel, on the 50, Birmingham-Moseley-Maypole-Druids Heath bus service. At the time, Smith's were running a variety of secondhand double decker buses on the route, and like Chase Coaches in Staffordshire, Smith's had adopted the orange and brown livery of Greater Manchester PTE.
Amongst some of the oddities that turned up with Smiths during this period, were a pair of Willowbrook bodied Bristol VR's from Cardiff City Transport (Cardiff 324 and 325). The photograph shows former Cardiff 324 (SWO324S) at the Maypole, having worked its way from City. The bus is still wearing its Cardiff City colours, probably because it was so close to the orange that Smiths were using, that neither bus got repainted. Behind 324 is YNA351M, an ex GMPTE Northern Counties bodied Daimler Fleetline that also belonged to Smiths.
17th March 1990.
National Express West Midlands 4345 BX02 AUW stands outside Birmingham Snow Hill on 12-03-16 as a passing couple grab a quick kiss.
London Midland Class 323 EMU 323212 waits for departure from Birmingham New Street with the 08:40 2W10 Walsall to Wolverhampton, while Crosscountry Class 170 Turbostar DMU 170520 waits on standby. Finally, London Midland Class 170 Turbostar 170634 waits for departure with the 08:49 1V23 Birmingham New Street to Hereford.
My Collection of Loco Nameplates Headboards workplates
7820 Dinmore Manor is a British Railways locomotive part of the Manor Class. It is one of nine locomotives preserved from the class, which originally numbered 30.
Named after the ancient 12th century Knights Hospitaller preceptory Dinmore Manor in Herefordshire, the locomotive was built by British Railways at Swindon in 1950, and was initially based at Oswestry. It was withdrawn from service in November 1965 from Shrewsbury, having been the last of its class to run with BR, and moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
The locomotive was purchased in 1979 by the Gwili Railway and was moved to Bronwydd Arms for restoration. A lack of undercover facilities and funds resulted in very little restoration work being carried out, with the locomotive being sold in 1983.
The engine was eventually restored at the Birmingham Railway Museum, with the West Somerset Railway Company providing a financial 'leg-up' to the owning Dinmore Manor Fund in 1995 to help finish the job.[1] The engine then made its debut on the West Somerset Railway over the summer of 1995, and ran there for nearly 9 years.
The locomotive's first ten year boiler certificate expired in July 2004, with the engine eventually returning to the Birmingham Railway Museum for overhaul. This was completed in April 2014, and Dinmore Manor subsequently entered service at its new base at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. While it remains based there, the locomotive has visited various other lines since resteaming. In August and September 2014, it worked on the North Norfolk Railway, before revisiting the West Somerset Railway in October. The engine then visited the Great Central Railway at Loughborough in January and February 2016 before returning to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway until July 2015, when the engine went on loan to the Dartmouth Steam Railway until the end of August,[2] before visiting the Severn Valley Railway in November, where it ran alongside its GWR built sisters 7802 and 7812, to mark 50 years since all 3 were among the last 4 members of the class (along with fellow survivor 7821) to be withdrawn by BR in November 1965.
Birmingham's library opened by "Malala Yousafzai" the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban. on the 3rd Sep 2013 ... The £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses one million books and is the largest library in Europe
Their not identical twins, one has the steel STRAP type cutter carrier and the other has the cast LUGS type cutter carrier.
Both of these planes were made by the Birmingham Plane Manufacturing Co. Sometime between 1885 and 1900.
Please check out my set “No.2 alike”, perhaps click and watch a slide show, might be fun?
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Birmingham Cathedral (St. Philip's).
Statue of Charles Gore, the 1st Bishop of Birmingham, by Thomas Stirling Lee.
Travel Express Leyland Lynx Mark 1, D603ACW, is seen pulling into Old Square, Birmingham, whilst working route 63.
Or Grand Central as they call it now. A quick snap on my phone as I passed through tonight on the way back from Aberdeen.
It was sad to see what was arguably the finest station in the country decline after loss of its mainline services.The remains of Wymans bookstall no further serve commuters and holidaymakers and the refreshment rooms brewed their last teas 4 years before
22/12/13. Moor Street Queensway, Birmingham. A Volvo chassis and Wright body.
[Route 31A]
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The distinctive Birmingham city centre skyline forms a backdrop as a Virgin Class 390 'Pendolino' approaches Adderley Park with 1B17 1130 Birmingham New Street-London Euston on 14 September 2013. With up to three Virgin departures an hour plus a similar number of London Midland services there is now plenty of opportunity of travelling between the Capital and Second City. Copyright John Whitehouse - all rights reserved