Another Train Spotter from Way Back.
 

Hi there I am Dave, Born in South West Birmingham and moved to Oz in 1957.

Spent all my spare time as a boy train spotting at Longbridge, New St Station, and Tamworth, probably like everyone else on this forum that grew up in the 1950s and 60s and got into trains as a child it is still in my blood.

Hope to participate in threads and enjoy the internet company of like minded people.

Regards
Dave.

Hello Dave and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

Hello Dave, I'm from your era but from the East Midlands and like you was bitten by the bug from a very early age. I once went to Birmingham New Street with some friends in the the early 1960s and also visited Snow Hill and Wolverhampton to see G.W.R. locos which you never saw arround the Nottingham area. Tamworth was popular as it was the nearest place on the West Coast Main Line for us, we spent a lot of time sitting on that grassy bank just down the line from the station, wonderful memories. Welcom Pete....

Hello Dave and others

I was also well into things in the 50's. Used to like to go to Wolverhampton and go down the side of a pub called the Wagon and Horses where you could see both the GWR line and the LMS line at the same time. Only problem was that there was a knackers yard nearby and the stench was terrible. Can still smell it now !!!!!!!

Hello Dave and welcome to the Railway Forum.

Hi Dave and a warm welcome from me too. Hope you enjoy the company on this forum. I too was a late 50's early 60's spotter in the days when times were a changing! Steam was being neglected for the cleaner easier diesels!! Lots of new experimental locos were being seen taking over from the "old ways". I guess it was sad to see so many fine engines going to the cutters, but at the same time there was an air of excitement with the spotting of Deltic's, Peaks, and other fine diesels. Having said that I am a steam die-hard and there is where I belong!
Enjoy and have fun on here
All the best
Phil

Thanks for the welcome Chris.

Hi PB I used to do my Tamworth spotting in a field next to the low level station and on the station itself, can still see the Britannia's stopping at the station in my mind, Great Days.

Used to see locos of the GWR and SR when I was younger, lived in Brighton for a few years and had relatives in Worcester and Stratford on Avon for the GWR trains.

Hi Locoman, yuk the stench I remember it well as we lived in a migrant hostel for a while when we first arrived in Oz, the hostel was next to an meat works with the communal canteen being next to where they boiled all the non usable bits to make glue.

Your Pub and train lines sound great though

Thanks for the welcome Syd.