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25/8/2010
REVISED the page for Hextons Quarry to include a list of sources.
CORRECTED the spelling of John A. Thickitt's name and added an observation of No.75008 at Oxley in Devember 2965.
24/8/2010
ADDED new entry for Network West Midlands publicity in 2010.
REVISED entry for London Midland publicity.
The are also numerous changes and corrections to the existing entries in the Timetables and Publicity Section.
20/8/2010
ADDED report and photographs on visits to Worcester Shrub Hill in 2010.
19/8/2010
REVISED the entry for Great Malvern with new photographs including dmu's No.165111 and No.158956.
ADDED a photograph of Cadbury's wagon No.144 in preservation at the Chasewater Light Railway (courtesy of Roger Lamb) and added index entries for all of the industrial locomotives on the Cadbury, Bournville page.
REVISED the index of locomotive photos by fixing most of the links that did not work properly and adding in the missing links to diesel multiple units.
REVISED the entry for Droitwich Spa Station to make all content on same page instead of three pages as previously.
10/8/2010
ADDED additional information about Worcester driver Vic Lord on to a page that contains a photograph of him.
9/8/2010
ADDED new entry for a non-locomotive worked sewer contract railway in Malvern in 2007.
8/8/2010
ADDED new entry about the Guildhall in Worcester
6/8/2010
CORRECTION to locomotive index for ex-WD No.79232. This was BR No.90691 not 90651. With thanks to Vic Smith for pointing out this error.
26/7/2010
ADDED some photographs at Bromsgrove taken on Monday 26th July 2010 including No.71000 'Duke of Gloucester' on a charter train.
21/7/2010
ADDED review of 'Past & Present 61 - Birmingham' by Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse
Added review of 'Past & Present 16 - Avon, The Cotswolds & Malvern' by Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse.
19/7/2010
ADDED review of 'Railways of the Cotswolds' by Colin Maggs.
18/7/2010
REVISED the page on Heenan & Froude with more information about Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd (provided by Tony Thomas), new information about the Dynamometer shown on this page, and the addition of an advert from the 'City of Worcester' guide for Redman Heenan International Ltd.
ADDED review of 'Herefordshire & Worcestershire's Lost Railways' by Peter Dent.
AMENDED entry for Hartlebury Shed, information kindly supplied by Roger Lamb.
11/7/2010
ADDED a photograph of No.139002 at Stourbridge Junction.
ADDED a photograph of Longbridge Junction in 2010.
ADDED a photograph of No.43040 at Worcester Foregate Street on 11th February 2010.
ADDED review of 'Lost Lines Birmingham and the Black Country'
ADDED review of a new book in the series of 'Rail in Birmingham' about 'The Black Country and South Staffordshire' by Andrew Doherty.
ADDED review of a pamphlet about 'The Birmingham West Suburban Railway'.
7/7/2010
ADDED new items to the Bibliography for recent articles appearing in 'Steam Days' magazine.
9/2/2010
FIXED the 'Linesiding' link below (10/1/2010).
ADDED review of 'Oxford - Hereford Line' book which was published 1985 and is now out of print.
ADDED two new photographs and some text to the pager about the Mining Engineering Co Ltd (Meco) in Worcester.
10/1/2010
ADDED a page to the 'Linesiding' section with details on photographs taken on the 'Cross City Line' in 1993.
8/1/2010
On the Home page of the site there is a new LINK at the top left that provides a Site Map to aid navigation through the site.
Several NEW pages and many photographs have been added and there has also been a reorganisation of pages There is now a major history and photograph section (still under construction in parts) covering 1963 to 2009. This starts with 1963 & 1964 (subtitled 'The Coming of the Diesels), followed by 1965 & 1966 (subtitled 'The End of Steam Operations'). Each page is linked both back and forwards to the following pages: 1967 to 1969; 1970 to 1974; 1975 to 1979; 1980 to 1984; 1985 to 1989; 1990 to 1994; 1995 to 1999; 2000 to 2002; 2003 to 2006; 2006 to 2009 and 2010.
The INDEX has also been rebuilt with these changes.
1/1/2010
The Publicity Section has been revised and edited. It now includes pages for First Great Western Link, Central Trains and Thames Trains.
All of 2009's updates are listed below.
27/12/2009
REVISED the article 'The coming of the Diesels' - a major revision with new photographs, text and corrections.
24/12/2009
UPDATED the pages on Underwood & Co Ltd, Droitwich with family history information and associated pages.
ADDED new page containing skeletal information about The Worcester City Saw Mills Company.
ADDED a new entry to the Bibliography about the book "Freight Only, Volume 2 Southern & Central England" that was published in 1988.
15/12/2009
ADDED two photographs showing railway wagons on the Severn Valley Railway that were formerly part of the fleet of Cadbury Brothers Ltd. With thanks to Gareth Price and apologies for the delay in getting this item on to the site! If anyone knows anything more about former Cadbury Wagons we would love to hear from you. Please also see Gareth's webpage.
9/12/2009
7/12/2009
CORRECTED the caption to No.92136 at Worcester (with thanks to Brian Ovington for this correction).
ADDED a note about use of class 22 diesel used on a passenger train in 1973 (thanks to Phil Bullock).
ADDED a paragraph of notes about further observations of class 22 diesels at Worcester (with many thanks to Keith Riley for these).
1/12/2009
ADDED notes on locos seen at Worcester on 20th November 1965 (courtesy of John Thickett)
ADDED a new page about two locomotives formerly stored in Pershore.
ADDED a new page about a possible tramway locomotive at the GWR Sheet Metal Works in Worcester.
UPDATED the page on BR class 22 diesels to include a reference to D6331 at Bromsgrove and more notes about D6331 at Abbotswood..
UPDATED the page on Pershore to revise the section on RAF Pershore with information provided by Paul Dallimore
ADDED a photograph taken by Gordon Chrzan showing narrow gauge track at CEGB Stourport Power Station.