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Forgotten Railways Vol 10 The West Midlands by Rex Christiansen
Forgotten Railways Vol 10 The West Midlands by Rex Christiansen
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Writing and address sticker(not shown -under dust jacket flap) inside front cover
160 pages + Fold Out Map
Copyright 1985
CONTENTS
List of Plates 7
1 Keeping Memory Green9
2 Birmingham: GWR15
3 Birmingham: LNWR30
4 Wolverhampton38
5 Black Country: GWR44
6 Black Country: LNWR64
7 Coventry, Rugby, Leamington Spa73
8 The Midland Presence80
9 North Staffordshire87
Gazetteer115
Bibliography 152
Acknowledgements156
Index157
LIST OF PLATES
Birmingham (Snow Hill) (Author's collection)17
Henley-in-Arden Old station (G. Biddle)17
Harborne branch (L & GRP 22838)18
Handsworth Wood station (L & GRP 18808)18
Wolverhampton (High Level) station. Carriage entrance (L & GRP 3822)35
Wolverhampton (Low Level) station (G. Biddle)35
Wolverhampton: Cannock Road Junction (G. F. Bannister)36
Oxley marshalling yard (Wolverhampton Public Libraries) 36
Tettenhall station (G. F. Bannister)53
Swan Village station (G. F. Bannister)53
GWR Birmingham District (Author's collection)54
Stourbridge Town branch (Author)71
Halesowen Railway (H. C. Casserley)71
Wednesbury Town (W. A. Camwell)72
Darlaston (W. A. Camwell)72
Wednesbury Town (W. A. Camwell)89
Wednesbury Town (G. F. Bannister)89
Princes End branch (Andrew Bannister)90
Princes End (Andrew Bannister) 90
Berkswell-Kenilworth: Coventry Avoiding Line (G. Biddle)107
Marton station (G. Biddle)107
Kenilworth Junction (J. A. G. Coltas)108
Aldridge (G. Biddle)108
Whitacre Junction (L & GRP 4720)125
Ashbourne, North Staffordshire Railway (Dr J.R. Hollick Collection)125
Ford Green (M. G. Fell)126
Ford Green (Author)126
Chesterton branch (M. G. Fell)143
Cold Meece terminus (H. B. Oliver)143
Stafford Common (G. F. Bannister)144
Pinnox crossing (Dr J. R. Hollick Collection)144
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Here is a carefully-researched but evocative memorial to many miles of forgotten railways, mainly created in Birmingham and the Black Country to intensify and exploit the Industrial Revolution - and an invitation to remember them: in fireside comfort, or by looking over bridges, tracing their routes or perhaps walking linear parks created from several trackbeds.
Besides one unquestionable main line (Birmingham Snow Hill-Wolverhampton Low Level) and one which had less claim to the title (the northern tip of the Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton between Dudley and Wolverhampton), there were branch lines, mineral lines, branches to canal interchanges (once an important feature of the West Midland transport scene).
Today their trackbeds lie under the shadow of gasholders and motorway viaducts, or beside new shopping centres and expressways or provide pathways, official and casual, between house, shops and schools. Planners have made extensive use of old railway land, wielding it into new landscapes.
Beside the disused routes at the West Midlands heart, there are a host in North Staffordshire, where 'The Knotty' established a railway atmosphere as distinctive as that of the local scene in the Potteries. Here trackbeds have been adapted into walkways as part of some of Britain's most ambitious land reclamation schemes. And there is the story of a remote valley, where people refused to have a railway back.
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