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The councils wanted to take away his best friend - a hawk at Birmingham City. A street photo that will tell a story.
4775 is a native Coventry trident that transferred to Birmingham along with a few others. The give away for this is higher back seats and blue poles. BX10ABK is seen behind on the 18 aswell both at Kings Norton.
Birmingham is a pretty great railroad town, and one nice aspect is how easy it is to work the city skyline into the background where the NS and CSX mains run parallel to each other through downtown. Looking more like a road train than a local, A28 is heading back to Norris Yard in suburban Irondale from Wilton with a recently re-activated SD70M-2 on the point. That construction site in the foreground is apparently for a new apartment development, hopefully it's set far enough back that it doesn't block the view here from the 24th Street bridge too much.
This Birmingham City Transport (previously called Birmingham Corporation Tramways) tram No. 395 is on display at the Thinktank science museum in the city. It was one of the last trams to run on the old network in 1953 on a journey from Steelhouse Lane to Short Heath on route No. 78.
There were a total of 843 trams (with a maximum of 825 in service at any one time), 20 depots, 45 main routes and a total route length of 80.5 miles (129.6 km). Birmingham Corporation built all the tramways and leased the track to various companies.
A pair of 323's clatter over the Birmingham & Worcester Canal between Selly Oak and University working 2U22 Redditch to Four Oaks.
Seen in the now pedestrianised New Street in Birmingham, 5527 is about to circle the City Centre via New Street, Corporation Street & Colmore Row before heading back to Bartley Green.
Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between Kansas City and Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.
One of my favourite photos from my trip to Birmingham's new library.
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The setting sun just caught the cows grazing in the field above Bartley Reservoir as well as the QE Hospital and the buildings in the City Centre.
Birmingham city centre provides a backdrop to No. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' as it charges up the 1-in-85 gradient from St Andrews Junction, and is seen heading onto the Camp Hill Line at Bordesley Junction on 2nd December 2021 while heading The Railway Touring Company's 'Worcester Christmas Fayre', 1Z46 0655 Norwich - Worcester Shrub Hill. The train featured No. 6233 from Ely to Worcester, and as far as Humberstone Road in Leicester on the return, from where 'Duchess of Sutherland' returned to Tyseley Steam Trust. The low level tracks are the former Great Western Mainline running into Birmingham Snow Hill, while the chord on the right connects with the Camp Hill Line at Bordesley Junction itself. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Winding its way from Landor Street Junction 66718 Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill will shortly pass beneath the Rugby & Birmingham line heading 6G34 02:50 Hindlow to Banbury aggregates.
The 1V51 10.03 Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads XC service takes the Camp Hill line having departed from Birmingham New Street heading east.
Some of the XC trains take this route to avoid the busy cross city line which has a very intense service with most services calling at all stations west of New Street.
Interestingly, this happened from time to time in loco hauled days. The reason back then was to avoid the loco having to run round its stock at New Street if the destination was on the SR. Trains from the north would turn left at Landor Street junction to join the Camp Hill line at Bordesley junction and enter New Street from the west. Some passengers probably wondered why they went past St Andrews FC twice in twenty minutes or so.
Lantern at The Magic Lantern Festival, at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. These unique, artistic and beautifully constructed installations were designed and made in China, and brought over to Birmingham especially for the event. Celebrating over 2,000 years of lantern festivals, Christmas at Birmingham Botanical Gardens features some traditional Chinese lanterns, alongside the Christmas lanterns.
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