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Gatekeeper (without gate) (pjs,1434

            Peter took a lot of pictures on the Birmingham City Sewage & Waterworks Railway around Minworth. This shows the road crossing, the railway was busy enough to have a permanent crossing keeper complete with his bespoke hut.
The railway took sludge from the vast sewage farm at Minworth to Coleshill incineration plant. It used Motor Rail petrol locomotives as early as June 1919. This picture is of a Motor Rail 40S loco with a raft of Allen's side tippers*
The 3 pictures in this set were scanned because I was sorting an envelope (of Peter's) marked "Ind Fil" which means he had an Industrial filing packet where he shoved negatives he had used, he intended to file them back in their correct packet later but of course, he never did.
*A picture of this system is in Industrial Narrow Gauge Album by Andrew Neale, a book that I picked up in Ian Allan's Birmingham shop closing down sale (You never know when it might come in useful).
Peter Shoesmith December 1967
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved 
   

Taken on: December 1, 1967

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Minworth

Motor Rail

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