56077 takes the second portion of a Handsworth - Aldwarke scrap train back past the scrapyard at 15:45 on Friday 19th July 1996. The loco would have had to run-round at Queen's Head sidings, and again at Langley Green or Stourbridge Jct (I can't remember which). As I recall the first portion had already been recessed at Bescot and the two portions were combined there before heading north. This flow became a regular working, but without the portion working and routed via Snow Hill with a single run-round at Tyseley. Work on the Midland Metro trackbed was underway in the background, but it would be another three years before it opened for business. Well over two decades will have elapsed before a second Metro line is open.
Home
Updated: 21/04/2024
Shunters
Class 20
Class 24-27
Class 31
Class 33
Class 37
Class 37/0 - 37/4
Class 37/5 - 37/9
Class 40
Class 47
Class 47/0 - 47/3
Class 47/4 - 47/9
Class 50
Class 56
Class 57
Class 60
Class 66
Class 67
Class 68
Class 70
Hydraulics
Electrics
Diesel multiple units
Electric multiple units
Trams
Midland Metro
Great Orme tramway
Miscellaneous
Pleck - Round Oak
Before and after
Infrastructure
Wednesbury
Wednesbury 1976
Wednesbury 1989
Wednesbury 1993
Rugeley coal
Bescot diesel shunters
A brief history
Allocation details
Shunters in transit
Buses
Models
Locomotives
Wagons
Non-transport photos
Selection 1
Selection 2
Technical info
Contact