Miscellaneous - Page 2

This is the site of Cofton Tunnel on what is now the Cross City line between Longbridge and Barnt Green. Due to the necessity for two additonal tracks, the tunnel was demolished in 1925 and, following a major landslide, became the wide cutting we see today.

This picturesque view shows Alvechurch station on 31/07/70 looking toward Redditch a few years before the reopening of the route as the Cross City Line and the moving of the station to the rear of the photographer in this shot.

This undated photograph shows Acocks Green station looking in the direction of Solihull - note the nameboard stating the station name as it was originally.

Courtesy of Rail Around Birmingham reader Stuart Lambeth, this is a downloadable file which, for those of you using Google Earth, will display a marker for the site of every station featured here overlaid onto present-day aerial photographic 'maps'. For more on the free Google Earth programme which is needed to run this file, go HERE.

As I have since been informed, this piece of truncated line off Gorsebrook Road, Dunstall Hill, was laid as a 'monument' to the region's railways by Wolverhampton Council.

These photos all show the remains in their entirety which, including the level crossing, have been left for posterity. If anyone has further information, please let me know.

In this shot we are standing on the level crossing and can see the viaduct carrying the ex-GWR line from Wolverhampton Low Level (to the rear) towards Shrewsbury.

A very interesting little find is all I have to say on this spot!

This impressive structure lies between Tettenhall and Compton on the GWR's Wombourne line and carries the trackbed over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal.

In this shot we are on the trackbed looking along the bridge towards Compton halt.

A good mid-1955 shot of Dudley station (well, almost 'stations' as the site technically housed two companies stations) taken from the A459: LMS side to the right, GWR to the left.

This is a great shot dated 23/09/50 at the GWR Moor Street station looking to Snow Hill with the long-gone goods shed to the extreme left.