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Peg Monkey

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Snow Hill Station 1960s
« on: September 30, 2018, 12:01:45 PM »
I know there is still a Snow Hill Station but for me the old girl died on 6 March 1972, shortly after it was turned into a car park. During my time at Harry Lucas School Hockley (1960-65) I commuted daily from The Lyndhurst Estate, Erdington usually using the 64 to Aston Cross and then the Inner Circle 8, returning the same way but occasionally, when I had caught train-spotting, I took a different way home from school: walked to top of Hockley Hill and got any bus to the top of Snow Hill, then I proceeded to the station and set-up camp on Platform 7 where, trying to do my homework in between train arrivals, I stayed until 7.00pm and got the 64 home in Steelhouse Lane.
Ah, Happy Days!
This link will take you to the plan of the site c1914: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=52.4839&lon=-1.8990&layers=168&b=6
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2018, 10:48:46 PM »
Snow Hill Station was GWR, New St Station was LMS - the other major difference was Snow Hill welcomed trainspotters (or anybody else for that matter as long as you purchased a 3d platform ticket) whereas New St was positively hostile towards them - if you were eyeballed by the transport police you were invited to leave the station complex pronto!
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2018, 11:42:59 PM »
Never found this Peg,Always welcomed at New Street on platforms 7
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2018, 01:38:15 AM »
Quote from: Edmund Fifield on September 30, 2018, 11:42:59 PM
Never found this Peg,Always welcomed at New Street on platforms 7
GWR - LMS bitter rivals, Ed - disinformation issued by Snow Hill Staff to maximise platform ticket sales? ::)
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2018, 03:49:06 PM »
If anyone is interested the locomotive featured in the cartoon in my opening post is Western Huntsman, photographed August 1964 in Weton-Super-Mare.
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2018, 08:30:46 PM »
Snow Hill Station wasn't just my favourite venue for trainspotting - it was where we also got the train for our annual family caravan holiday at Brean Down, near Weston-Super-Mare. My father wasn't very adventurous - 2 weeks in Brean year after year after year......until I was 14 and I said ENOUGH!
I know what you are thinking he was lucky to have 2 weeks holiday anywhere - true.
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2018, 11:28:55 PM »
Wasn't keen on Western used to go to Grantham to see the Streaks on the G N   E R
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« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2018, 11:31:32 PM »
Brain went dead when steam went out Diesel. Aaaaaarrghh
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« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2018, 08:54:13 AM »
Quote from: Edmund Fifield on October 01, 2018, 11:28:55 PM
Wasn't keen on Western used to go to Grantham to see the Streaks on the G N   E R
Grantham? - Isn't that in the Far East? - Could they understand your accent?
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2018, 09:54:16 AM »
Peg ,it was a lovely ride through Derby to Nottingham to Grantham.There were all Nationalities at the end of the platform.And we didn't have to buy a platform ticket O0 O0
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Re: Snow Hill Station 1960s
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2018, 10:49:37 AM »
Quote from: Edmund Fifield on October 01, 2018, 11:31:32 PM
Brain went dead when steam went out Diesel. Aaaaaarrghh
Couldn't agree more Ed, before I caught transpotting the train we got to Weston was usually hauled by a Hall or Manor class loco, I suppose my first holiday in Weston would have been when I was 2 (1951) and I guess steam was on the decline then, so my trainspotting period 1961-1963 was when steam was really on the verge of disappearing.
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