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I discovered this site by following a link from www.dukedog.co.uk and am glad I did. A native of West Bromwich when it was in Staffordshire, I now live in Devon and am an avid collector of photo's of and information about West Midlands railways, particularly from the sixties when I was often to be found on the platforms of Snow Hill or New Street stations. I've been a keen photographer of railways for many years but am ever grateful to Michael Mensing et al for recording those scenes I witnessed but didn't record for myself. This site is a very welcome addition to what is available.

Chris Brown

What an excellent website. I liked the old photos my local station, Coventry. Keep up the excellent work

Cheers Matt

What a superb website, living in the Shirley/Hall Green area all my life it's amazing how the stations have changed so little over the years. I spent a bit of time between Christmas and New Year walking along bits of the old Rowington jc. to Henley in Arden line that closed in 1908 when the North Warwickshire line opened, little of it remains although we did mange to find a boundary marker which dates from 1880 in it's original position. Using the aerial photo view on multimap.co the path of the line is reasonably clear. Having been in use for only 14 years before closure precious little information is available about that line. Do you know much about it?

Regards, Mike

I took special interest in your site as we moved to Stratford on Avon in the 70's and indeed my Mum still lives there and I recognise a lot of the stations. I would like you to know that your hard work and future plans are appreciated. There are not many photo web sites dedicated to Railways, and certainly nothing as ambitious as yours. I wish you luck for the future .

Cheers! Terry

Superb site - very well presented.

Richard Morton

Terrific site, link still not working! I especially like the pictures of the Foleshill railway, are there any more? I was a student at the "Lanchester" and lived for a while next to what had been the armaments factory off Stoney Stanton Road by Websters Sidings.

Simon of http://titfield.co.uk/

Excellent resource for railway historians and modellers alike. Logically organised and well presented. Your hard work is to be commended in publishing these images and information.

Well done! Andy York of http://www.rmweb.co.uk/

I have been keeping a watching brief on the Warwickshire Railways web site after Andy at 'Rail Around Birmingham' recommended it. Its been great to see the site develop and I can see a great resource starting to emerge. Even though I'm not that familiar with Warwickshire, some of the photographs have proved fascinating. I'll have to start exploring Warwickshire and developing a gallery for the area to go alongside my Staffordshire and Worcestershire ones.

Best wishes, Paul walker of http://wme.fotopic.net/

I thought your excellent site was really fascinating and as it progresses it will provide a really useful insight into the region for both modelers and enthusiasts.

John Downing of dukedog.plus.com

Dear Mike

I have now had a chance to look at the photo lnwrcov1282 on your web site, which came from the H W Taunt Collection. It certainly bears a striking resemblance to our photo (lnwrcov645), which was taken from the same viewpoint and shows the station at the same stage of development. However, our photo was taken by Joseph Wingrave, a retail chemist who had a shop in High Street, Coventry. I know this is true because we possess the original glass plate negative.

Andrew Mealey, Coventry Local Studies Library

Link added - great site - found it hard to drag myself away and get back to work!

Roger of steamtraingalleries.co.uk

Mike

Yours is an excellent looking site, and I would be happy to link swap. I am especially interested in your photos of Rugby; my day job is working as part of the design team planning for major changes at Rugby, starting next year (think new platforms, major track remodel, 4th track to Brinklow being put back, etc). Believe it or not, we *wont* be removing the old GCR bridge!

Garry of railwaysarchive.co.uk

Have spent over an hour looking at the site and have gone quickly through the LMS content I must congratulate you on the informative captions. Excellent. It is superb. You can be really proud of it.

RJK.

I've had a look at your new site - looks really good: I like the navigation system. I had considered theming my site by railway company but it got a little overcomplicated as to what point to draw the line: pre-grouping, grouped etc . . . virtually every method I could think of had its drawbacks so I plumped for a large interactive map in the end. I know from experience what a mammoth task you have ahead of you. I look forward to seeing the site develop and anything I can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask.

Andy Doherty of railaroundbirmingham

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