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    TYSELEY HERE’S TO THE NEXT 50... AND MORE!

    Oct 15, 2018 5 minutes
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    ROBIN JONES
    VT
    ROBIN JONES
    ROBIN JONES
    VT

    A Tyseley Locomotive Works open day never disappoints. The steam depot in the heart of one of Birmingham’s inner-city industrial suburbs, which has taken over the mantle of Swindon in keeping regular classic GWR steam live on the main line, is now poised for its biggest heritage era venture yet, as Britain’s newest Train Operating Company – as outlined in Main Line News, pages 62-63.

    As I wrote in issue 244, Tyseley has been part and parcel of our family history since my earliest childhood. When our dad took us to his place of work, the Midland Electrical Manufacturing Co Ltd in nearby Reddings Lane, where he was head of printing, our test would be a walk down to Warwick Road to see if a GWR masterpiece was parked outside for us to admire through

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