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townie

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Re: train stations in brum
« Reply #176 on: October 29, 2016, 09:22:51 AM »

This is a new one on me Harborne with a turntable, but when you think about it the cross city line as we know it finished here so a turntable would be very useful the engine would be facing the right way.

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« Reply #177 on: October 29, 2016, 04:20:16 PM »

As there are some very clever people on this forum can anyone identify this part of an old station and the name of the station. I have more photos if needed.


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« Reply #178 on: October 29, 2016, 10:31:17 PM »
Never heard of the cross city line going anywhere near Harborne, and anyway passenger traffic finished  on the hardorne line in 1934

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« Reply #179 on: October 29, 2016, 11:28:44 PM »
You learn something new everyday. I always thought Harborne was on the cross city line. But I have been told that I am wrong.
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« Reply #180 on: October 31, 2016, 11:36:32 PM »
I stand corrected Harborne wasn't and still is not on the Cross City line. The line that went to Harborne was a single line running from Monument Lane having 3 intermediate stations Icknield Port Road, Rotton Park Road and Hagley Road. I am going to have to get my railway geography head on. 
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« Reply #181 on: November 20, 2016, 06:40:17 PM »


Although not a station I thought I would add this Tyseley depot where I started my railway career.





And it looked just like this.
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« Reply #182 on: November 20, 2016, 06:44:35 PM »

And this shed was my first booking on point.


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« Reply #183 on: November 21, 2016, 07:46:55 AM »
Here's a map showing the layout of Harborne Station in 1938 at the end of which is the turntable. The pictures shows the turntable back in 1929.

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« Reply #184 on: November 21, 2016, 10:32:16 AM »
As there are some very clever people on this forum can anyone identify this part of an old station and the name of the station. I have more photos if needed.



The old station site is now covered with houses and I suspect very little remains of the old railway structures. However, just north of where the station was, the old track bed continues up through the Chad Valley along what is now the Harborne Walkway. So the building shown might be somewhere along this walkway?

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Re: train stations in brum
« Reply #185 on: April 29, 2017, 09:59:06 AM »

A nice old photo of Snow Hill Station 1900c


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« Reply #186 on: December 04, 2018, 01:18:45 PM »
A nice old photo of Snow Hill Station 1900c




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