Photos from the Midlands of England

"How about the line from Redditch to Ashchurch? And, especially, the segments remaining of Brunel's attempt to connect the GWR with New Street Station by way of a never connected ROW, still extant, in south Birmingham, starting just north of Bordesley Station?"

You might be interested in the following steam era photographs with the Redditch to Ashchurch line at: http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/eve ... ingham.htm

and the segments of Brunel's viaduct at Bordesley Station at: http://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/bordesley.htm

They are part of the site I am building on Warwickshire's Railways (pre-1968) which I am building and currently has 3500 photos covering 90% of the 180 or so stations.

Mike

mikemusson wrote:"How about the line from Redditch to Ashchurch? And, especially, the segments remaining of Brunel's attempt to connect the GWR with New Street Station by way of a never connected ROW, still extant, in south Birmingham, starting just north of Bordesley Station?"

You might be interested in the following steam era photographs with the Redditch to Ashchurch line at: http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/eve ... ingham.htm

and the segments of Brunel's viaduct at Bordesley Station at: http://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/bordesley.htm

They are part of the site I am building on Warwickshire's Railways (pre-1968) which I am building and currently has 3500 photos covering 90% of the 180 or so stations.

Mike

Between Moor Street and the Northwestern main line there is an unfinished viaduct which looks as though it has never been used. I used to see it out of my window when I was on the top floor of one of Aston University's tower blocks. I could watch the trains going in and out of the tunnel for New Street. This was just before the tunnel was reopened to the former main GWR station at Snow Hill.

Thanks for the pics, as an ex Pat from Coventry living in hot and steamy Texas, I found them very refreshing, heck, i could almost smell the grass, great pics