Birmingham Mini Walking and Service Train Tour - 30th December 2023

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University is off to the left and New Street right; the double trackbed was for Birmingham Central Goods (right)<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	University is off to the left and New Street right; the double trackbed was for Birmingham Central Goods (right)<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	A Bristol to Manchester train passes Five Ways (OP 8 May 1978). Upper right is the brick station building of the first Five Ways station (CP 2 Oct 1944). Left of the Central Goods track bed is the Worcester & Birmingham Canal (Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Co on maps!).<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	In the other direction, towards New Street and Central Goods, an Edinburgh to Bristol CrossCountry train passes.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	Birmingham Central Goods trackbed leaving Bath Row tunnel after diverting around the Jewish cemetery <br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	Birmingham Granville Street (the name of the road on that bridge and tunnel) station site and and tunnel to Birmingham Central Goods (off right).<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	The double track Granville Street Tunnel, from the southern portal, looking towards Central Goods. The white area is waterproofing beneath the canal.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]
The Worcester & Birmingham Canal ('Old Line') narrow gauge lines; Gas Street Basin is behind the photographer; right is to Worcester.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	The SW side of the Grade II listed Holliday Street Aqueduct is in a poorer condition than the NE side (it carries the canal and Worcester Wharf).<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	A 'now' and 'then' moment at the Birmingham Central portal of Granville Street Tunnel, our guide Adam Turner is left<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	In the other direction, Central Goods kept at arm's length, looking towards the end of line - the distant building straight ahead is in both pictures here.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	A Cardiff to Nottingham DMU appraoching New Street station passes the closed Birmingham New Street Power Box.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	Gravelly Hill the L&NWR 1862 two-storey booking hall building is on Up P1 (to Birmingham), the booking office staff like spaghetti apparently.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	The present Sutton Coldfield station on the Cross City Line.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]
Sutton Coldfield Town station building on the Sutton Park line in Midland Drive; it CP 1 Jan 1925.<br>[&copy; Neil Berry 2023]	On this map of New Street the Midland Railway Parcels Offices are top left (see BLN 1444.754 about this) and note platform numbers and signal box there.<br>[&copy; Estates Office, Midland Railway 1915]	On this map of Birmingham Central Goods Station, bottom left 'LNW' is the tunnel on the Wolverhampton line.<br>[&copy; Estates Office, Midland Railway 1915]	Granville Street to Bath Road<br>[&copy; Estates Office, Midland Railway 1915]	Five Ways and Church Road Jn.<br>[&copy; Estates Office, Midland Railway 1915]