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60163 Tornado
            - The William Shakespeare

60163 Tornado working "The William Shakespeare"
London Paddington - Stratford on Avon - Paddington

60163 Tornado
            - Driver and Fireman
60163 Tornado's Driver and Fireman


7752 & 9600
7752 & 9600 Tyseley - Leicester -Tyseley


7752
7752 test run Tyseley - Stratford on Avon - Tyseley

4965 Rood Ashton
          Hall
4965 Rood Ashton Hall
Melton Mowbary Victorian Fayre Special



4936 Kinlet Hall
4936 Kinlet Hall passes  Castle Bromwich, light engine to the NVR


34067 Tangmere
          arriving at Tyseley     4965 Rood Ashton
          Hall
                                  34067 "Tangmere" arriving at Tyseley              4965 Rood Ashton Hall "Shakespeare Express"                         
  Southall-Crewe light engine move
                                                                                   


4936 Kinlet Hall,
          Shakespeare Express
4936 Kinlet Hall, "Shakespeare Express", Birmingham Moor Street


4936 Tyseley
4936 Kinlet Hall on test run
Tyseley - Stratford on Avon -Tyseley



6201 Moor Street,
          Shakespeare Express

6201 Princess Elizabeth working the First of the 2011 season of the
"Shakespeare Express" , above at Birmingham Moor Street,
and below at Birmingham Snow Hill


6201 Snow Hill,
          Shakespeare Express


60163
60163 at Lea Hall, Birmingham, Crewe-Didcot movement


5043
5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe "The Great Western Midlander"
Birmingham New Street - London Euston



45407 &
          44871
45407 & 44871 heading for
the Severn Valley Railway



60019
4492 working the York- Stratford on Avon passing through Tyseley Station


5043
5043 with a Private Charter, Birmingham - Oxford heading for Birmingham Moor Street


5029 Nunney
          Castle
5029 Nunney Castle , Tyseley- Carnforth at Castle Bromwich


6201 Acocks
          Green    6201
6201 Princess Elizabeth, Tyseley- London Southall movement,
 ready to haul a mainline special the following day



4965 & 5043
          Tyseley-Didcot

4965 & 5043 Coronation Express  Tyseley-Didcot
Leaving Tyseley and returning  through Snow Hill

4965 & 5043
          Coronation Express   4865
          & 5043 Snow Hill


6201 to Crewe
6201  Princess Elizabeth heading for Crewe

4965

4965 Rood Aston Hall with a "Valentine Special"
Tyseley - Leicester - Tyseley


4965 returning to
          Tyseley
4965 returning to Tyseley


4965
4965 Rood Aston Hall  at Tyseley Locomotive Works

45305 Tyseley-
          Euston
45305 Tyseley- London Euston


45305
45305 heading to Buxton from Tyseley
 just as day breaks through Small Heath

camera - 3200iso, f8,125th sec


45305

45305 leaves Tyseley on a test run to Stratford on Avon and return
camera 400iso, F4, 60sec, with Flash

  45305


5043     4965
5043 Earl of mount Edgcumbe  and  4965 Rood Ashton Hall  both travelling along
the North Warwick Line, with the "Shakespeare Express"


6233
6233 passing Bromford heading to Butterly

Bordesley
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe at Bordesley Junction to Run round at Saltley with the
"Shakespeare Express
" due to engineering work at Moor Street
Station
and returing via the North Warwick Line due to engineering work at Dorridge
spring road


5043
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
"Shakespeare Express"


5029
5029 Nunney Castle, Tyseley - Bristol


4965 Tyseley
4965 Rood Ashton Hall  Small Heath


6201
6201 Princess Elizabeth approaching Stechford, from Adderley Park
Birmingham New Street - London Euston,
the first steam hauled since the 1960s

Acocks Green
4965 working the "Shakespeare Express"
through Acocks Green

4965
4965 "Rood Ashton Hall"  Moor Street
and locomotive Crew

Locomotive Crew

6024
6024 Paddington - Worcester

5043
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

9600
9600 returning to Tyseley with 47773

6201
6201 Princess Elizabeth works down the North Warwick

5043
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

6201 & 9600
        Camp Hill
6201 "Princess Elizabeth" Travels over Camp Hill
with 9600 as the "Banker"

9600 Banker
and they return to Tyseley passing Small Heath
9600 & 6201


5972 & 37706
37706 and 5972 "  Hogwarts Express" enter Tyseley Multi yard


20.05.10
 4965 & 5043 leave Tyseley for Bristol

46233
46233 arrive at Tyseley on route to Crewe

    6201       70013 Tyseley
 6201 heading to Tyseley                         70013 passing Tyseley 



Test 1    test2   Tyseley -
        Southhall

   30777 leaves Tyseley on a test to Stratford-on-Avon in the morning down the North Warwick,
 and then in the evening a second run  along the same route.    With everything being alright
 the following morning 30777 Sir Lanial headoff the Southhall, passing through Acocks Green


Leaving  returning
5043 leaving to haul the "Bristolian" Paddington-Bristol, and returning to Tyseley

71000
71000 Duke of Gloucester ,Tyseley

44871 & 70013
44871 & 70013 Camp hill, Bristol - Preston

5029 & 37264
5029 & 37264  Tyseley - Southhall

6201 Princess
        Elizabeth
6201 Princess Elizabeth, Crewe- Southhall


70013 & 30777    70013
70013 & 30777 Working from Carnforth and stopping at Tyseley,
with 70013 "Oliver Cromwell" continuing to Southall alone



60163 returning to
        London
60163 and support coach approaching Marston Green


9600 & 9466 
9600 & 9466 arriving at Moor Street
9600 & 9466
also at Moor Street  2885
2885


9600
Pannier 9600 Main Line Test Run
above returing from Stratford-on-Avon


9600 tyseley      9600 down the North
        Warwich
above leaving Tyseley light engine,and below
ECS to Shirley, for the Service to Stratford-on-Avon

9600 ecs    9600 ecs 2

                  small heath45690 Small Heath

Kinlet Hall  5043
      4953 Kinlet Hall                               5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

5029 Nunny
            Castle  4953-5029
5029 Nunny Castle                                4953 & 5029

5029 &
                4953
5029 & 4953


Tyseley
4936 Shakespeare Express

Hogwarts
            Express
5972 Hogwarts Express

tyseley  moor street
  Olton Hall working the Shakespeare Express
at Tyseley and Moor Street

Shakespeare Express  
5043 at Tyseley, working the
Shakespeare Express

outward  return
4953 Kinlet Hall  & 47580 
 31st August 2009

      acocks green     
                                                                                                            4965 & 5043 Acocks Green                                                          
                                                                
     bordseley  
6229 Bordelsey Junction, on route to York

  tyseley
                                                  34067 pasing through Tyseley                                   
                         


                                                       camp
                  hill                                         
Halls to Newport
                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                         
          acocks green
Acocks Green

from yorkto bescot
60163 passing through Water Orton

moor street
5043 & 5029 Moor Street

 60007  tyseley
             60007 Marston Green                        4936 Tyseley                  


castle bromwich
4965 Castle Bromwich

tyseley  5043
4936 at Tyseley and 5043 Moor Street working the Shakespeare Express 

    6233
             6233 Small Heath   

kinlet
                  hall
4936 Kinlett Hall Small Heath

60163  Duchess of
                  Sutherland
60163 leaving and 6233 arriving at Tyseley


 

60103 "Tornado" and friends visit Tyseley

60163
platford Steve Underhill Driver
Linda Linda's team  
Peckett Driver & Fireman
Re-commisioning Les Ross Micheal Whitehouse
Locomotion Line up
Platford rides 45593
5043 Line up 5029
4953 tysely

to the future,

The Unknown Warrior Nameplate
The LMS- Patriot Project aims to create a New Locomotive,as a
National Memorial by 2018 for the 100th anniversary of the First Armistice Day.
It is being buillt at Langollen, the frames have been made at Cradley Heath.

locomotives

and October 2010 sees another steam day

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