Welcome
Thank you for taking the time to look at my site, the idea is to share railway photos from the past to the present day. I have a lot of old pictures taken in the late 80's through to the mid 90's. Now also from 2019 on wards. My photos can be seen with the logo at the bottom of each page. I spent most of my time in the Birmingham area in the late 1980's and early 1990's taking photos when I could. Most Saturday's I would be at Bescot, Saltley and Birmingham New Street. Travelling to Birmingham International and Wolverhampton on trains of various guises. Travelling around the Midlands those days was cheap, £2.70 got a bus and rail pass for the Midlands area, Coventry on one side and Wolverhampton on the other. Sometimes travelling to Crewe, Derby and Stafford to catch the trains that skirted Birmingham along the Trent Valley Lane. London on a Saturday was a cheap £5.50 day return away, just under two hours to Euston and then a Underground pass to get around. Although this was not a regular travel location, looking back maybe it should have been. But how many parents even then would be happy with a 16 year old sneaking off to London at the weekend.
Thank you to Ian Charles and to his late son David who has kindly allowed me to publish his photographs here on the site, Ian a life long railway enthusiast and a member of the Midland Railfans since 1977, a retired manager from the old Goodyear tyre factory, now aged 60. Ian was born next to Priestfield Station, the first station south of Wolverhampton on the low level line in to Birmingham Snow Hill station. Ian grew up seeing the last of the steam services running on the mainline, closely followed by Westerns, Warships, Hymeks and of course the famous Blue Pullman. Ian has some fantastic photos and he has more on his Instagram as charlies_trains1961, you will be able to tell their photos from the logo at the bottom of the photo.
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