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BIRMINGHAM'S £23,000 SUBWAY OPENED

... Missile day by the chairman of the in single lines regulated by Public Works Committee. Coun. lights. Frank Price. When the tram service ended Above (left): Families usil g in 1953. the road was narrowed Sit . tes in the subway. On the right, to 12ft . with ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 493 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM'S £23,000 SUBWAY OPENED

... improve the flow of traffic, wrAch had been able to pass under the bridge only in single lines regulated by lights. When the tram service ended in 1953, the road was narrowed to 12ft.. with fenced-in pavements on each side. Previously one side had been fenced ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 503 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

WHITBY

... WHITBY f a :luta/ I m. WRITBY Ideal bOltial • resort. o!oaAant enmities. Islam to Duo or tram service ter couotrf. oar Ede or Yoraihtro Moors beard bed sad Oraaataat taros Übe 4 SSEMBLERS Iwomen) regd.. expertonce not essentisl full time preferred, but ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 455 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

`Boredom and Drink'

... board. Two of the popular toastracks passing each other on the Llandudno to Colwyn Bay run. Visitor: will miss this tram service. which comes to an end on Saturday, and is being replaced by busts. ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 549 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

AUCTIONEERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS tINCORPORATING FRANK SMITH. WILSON • CO.) ID 744.1. i mid 1946-7. el ihe Ewe...dors ..

... RESIDENCE known WARWICKSHIRE. WITH VACANT POSSESSION. A pkasantly situated COUNTRY RESIDENCE within easy reach of an excellent tram service and Midland Red Motor Omnibus Sashes. The HOUSE *hi. h is d in brick with elevations and tiled roof. is retir from roa ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 459 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Pioneer transport days at Wolverhampton

... the trams up the rising Darlingtonstreet to Queen's-square. Sometimes there were different kinds of hold-ups on the steam tram service to Dudley. If the from Our Own Correspondent A REMINDER OF 1905 The first double-deck motor-bus to run in Wolverhampton ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 591 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MERCURIC by Martin Henfiold MERCURY S VISION AND SOUND i' ' ' I' r-A-’v - ‘-y 1 -X-' '

... Sunday Blur:- -la Sunder - 1 430 - World Down- 9-45 lor Ufa llil :' ':' ' ' News A10 from Sun-' part Moaart s Week's -1--- 'Tram (Service) r890 of 1: ln of Music BB8 100 NEWS: 1010 Cuuorth: life Bound NEWS Barbara dames sweetl&L weald - baa ' “ It's battte ...

Published: Sunday 03 August 1969
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Sunday Mercury October 9 1977 BEFORE BUILD-UP eign vas ose Bir-black England -- md ranks the civic w was to

... landscape Yet 1881 the census revealed only 745 inhabitants scattered around farms and cottages was the extension the tram service from Small Heath to the Swan Hotel and the introduction of the one old penny -fare in 1890 spelled the beginning of the ...

Published: Sunday 09 October 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 588 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM POST JUNE 17, 1972 Why a Festival of Transport in connection with the celebration of the Yardley ..

... Acocks Green. and the formation of the North Warwickshire line In 1907. From 1884 the parish also saw the development of a tram service from Birmingham. Joint exhibition It is therefore entirely appropriate that Yardley should be celebrating transport •n ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 613 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

MACLIT

... will be employed by the new omnibus service after receiving training in their new jobs. One major cause for the continuous tram service deficit is that fares have not been raised since 1943. The new buses will accommodate 35 seated rs each. But they will ...

Published: Tuesday 09 April 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 564 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Buses Started

... after the first World War steadily declined not only as a result of the growth of the bus services but also because the tram service. by then using closed-top cars, was frequent and cheap. Lost Traffic The winter time-table of 1954- 55 shows 15 trains ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 684 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MIDLAND Beautiful Water o Strawberries DIARY in the Car ?

... the fountain once more without the lamp standards. Steam trams ran in Dudley from about 1884 until 1899 when the electric tram service began and all else my correspondent has been able to discover is that many older people remember the lamps about the ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 642 | Page: 4 | Tags: none