Freshly repainted 66092 is passing through Solihull station with 4M71, the 09.48 Southampton Western Docks to Birch Coppice exchange sidings.
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This is Belgrade Square in Coventry, to the left is the Belgrade Theatre, opened in 1958 and is still with us today.
In the background is the (then) new showroom for S. H. Newsome Co Ltd, a successful main dealer for Standard Triumph cars. The original garage and dealership was on land required for the development of Smithford Way, the new Coventry shopping precinct. This showroom was established and the main garage moved out to the Highway Garage on the A45 Coventry by-pass.
In this picture we see that vehicles could drive round Belgrave Square and the theatre had a covered entrance in order that theatre-goers could drive to the door and be dropped off or collected without getting wet.
The road has a (now) interesting selection of cars. A Morris Minor, a Jaguar Mk IV saloon, a Ford Popular, a Hillman Minx convertible and a very new looking Ford Anglia. The centre piece in the showroom is an imposing Bentley saloon.
The view today shows that Belgrade Square retains the footprint of the original plan. The theatre has been modernised and the covered entrance has now been removed because, being pedestrianised, means that no cars could use it.
The 1950's block which contained Newsome's has now been replaced by a gym and food outlets. The square has lost the gardens, they have been replaced with a water feature, lawns and fresh tree planting, decent seating has been replaced by perches on walls or planters, they are rather cold and uncomfortable.
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Standing at Richmond station is 2-EPB class 416/3 6314, the train will form a service for North Woolwich.
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68010 'Oxford Flyer' is pushing 1H41 the 11.45 Birmingham Moor Street to Marylebone service, the picture was taken at Streetsbrook Road, Solihull.
This view was a tree tunnel, but very recently 50 years of tree and shrub growth have been eradicated, even trees which were in my 1975 'Western class' diesel pictures have gone!
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BU51 RVP is now a NXWM training/mobile advert bus.
The vehicle is waiting at a bus stop on Stratford Road, Shirley It is the stop where buses regularly change drivers.
4257 is a Volvo B7TL with Alexander H47/27F body, it was new to West Midlands in December 2001.
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