“Around Birmingham” video.

[Stroudwater1]

Apologies if it’s been posted before. Mainly steam locomotive based. At just after 15.00 is some canal scenes. Where is the basin? Before that a power station which I think is Ocker Hill. Sadly no sound. 
 

 

[BuckbyLocks]

Saltley, now filled in.

[alan_fincher]

Fascinating footage - it's just a shame that the quality of much of the transferred video is not that great.

You've got to love those Duchesses - at least 3 sequences with these.

 

Whilst initially looking like "just another running day" the appearance of a "Spam Can" Bullied pacific, and also of the preserved Flying Scotsman shows things that were not "every day".

A blast from the past where photographers got right down to the track-side, presumably without any consent, and certainly with no clothing aimed at making them more visible.
 

[MtB]

Yes this is exactly how my earliest memories of railways are. My dear old departed Dad used to take me to the coal yard at Ashford on a Saturday morning to watch the steam powered shunting around of wagons and the steam traffic on the main line through. Or it might have been Hayes not Ashford. The steam locos more or less disappeared by the time I was 6 or 7 years old which even at that age, disappointed me massively. 

A lot of camera shake on some parts of the video which I think modern editing software will get rid of.

 

 

[Derek R.]

Good range of action, enjoyed that. My area was LNER North London and trips to Kings X, racing out from school to see what was hauling the Elizabethan through Wood Green. Never knew Brum back then.

[Heartland]

The Power Station was Nechells and there are Glimpses of Bourneville and Water Side