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Gazzer
Ever had a close call ? as in missing injury or worse due to circumstances. Ever supposed to be somewhere but plans changed and you didnt.
Back in 1977, i had a young friend that loved engineering, planes , trains etc and at the time my favourite day out was Birmingham Science Museum. This was an adventure for myself and my friend as I was only 15 at the time, he was about 11. To get to the Museum was Bus ride followed by a train journey into Birmingham.
We arrived to the Museum and spent the day walking around but soon realised we needed to go to catch the train. On the way I felt unwell with stomach cramps. We arrived at New St station but I needed to sit down so we ended up missing the train we were due to get on. Never mind, the next train was 20 minutes later and I was feeling better. When we arrived at Stourbridge Junction you have to swap trains onto a shuttle train which will take you to the town station. Now the track to the station is only a short journey and you cant go any further than the town station as there must have been a bridge there a long time ago which was now just a wall with track stoppers.
Well we arrived at the junction to be told we had to catch a bus to the next station, when we arrived this is what we found .
A train crash at Stourbridge, 1977 (1) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
makes you wonder if the weight of 2 more passngers coould have tipped it over the edge ?
Back in 1977, i had a young friend that loved engineering, planes , trains etc and at the time my favourite day out was Birmingham Science Museum. This was an adventure for myself and my friend as I was only 15 at the time, he was about 11. To get to the Museum was Bus ride followed by a train journey into Birmingham.
We arrived to the Museum and spent the day walking around but soon realised we needed to go to catch the train. On the way I felt unwell with stomach cramps. We arrived at New St station but I needed to sit down so we ended up missing the train we were due to get on. Never mind, the next train was 20 minutes later and I was feeling better. When we arrived at Stourbridge Junction you have to swap trains onto a shuttle train which will take you to the town station. Now the track to the station is only a short journey and you cant go any further than the town station as there must have been a bridge there a long time ago which was now just a wall with track stoppers.
Well we arrived at the junction to be told we had to catch a bus to the next station, when we arrived this is what we found .
A train crash at Stourbridge, 1977 (1) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
makes you wonder if the weight of 2 more passngers coould have tipped it over the edge ?