Birmingham Rail Sites
When I first looked through the boxes of prints, I was surprised to
find a large number of what I considered to be 'uninteresting'
pictures. Who would care about endless shots of track layouts,
signals and odd bits of sidings? When I saw the faces of rail
enthusiasts light up when they looked at some of these pictures, it
started to make sense. Far from being uninteresting, these shots
were often very rare, even unique. In the same way as he had done
for
Birmingham before the introduction
of the Inner Ring Road, my father was recording history for the benefit
of future generations. I now realise that these images are of
great importance to railway historians, enthusiasts and modellers and
I'm pleased to make them available here.
Being a Birmingham man, many of the shots were taken in the Birmingham
area. This page allows access to some of the photo's taken around
the city. If you have a particular interest in a location, please
get in touch and I'll see what I can do.
Note that this page does not cover stations - please see the
Railways page for Birmingham and local
stations and pictures of New Street station. Also, see the
Birmingham page for further pictures of
New Street station.
Sheds
Bournville
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A superb pictorial record from
the late 1940's through to demolition in 1961
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Monument Lane
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Pictures taken close to Monument
Lane shed and station in 1954 and 1955
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Saltley
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Pictures of Saltley Shed in
1948, 1949, 1956 and 1961
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Sidings
Central Goods
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Pictures of Birmingham Central
Goods sidings and offices from 1953 and 1954
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Curzon Street
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A picture of Curzon Street
Sidings from 1955
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Junctions
Bordesley Jct
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Pictures of Bordesley Junction
from 1954 including layout diagram
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Grand Jct
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Pictures of Grand Junction from
1960
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St Andrew's Jct
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Pictures of St. Andrew's
Junction from 1954 and 1955
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Signals and Signal Boxes
Brickyard Crossing
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A colour photo of Brickyard
Crossing from 1955.
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Selly
Oak Boxes
and Signals
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Pictures of Selly Oak's new
signal box in 1957 and 1958 including shots of the old one being
demolished
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Box Interiors
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Interior shots of Bordesley Jct,
Duddeston Rd, Lifford, New St No.2 and Saltley Jct boxes
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Miscellaneous
