Coombe Barton Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Local website has this http://suttoncoldfieldlocal.co.uk/rail-disaster-13497745/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 My mother was a student radiographer in Birmingham in the mid-50s and she travelled back there every Sunday on that train. On that particular day she missed it because my grandfather's car would not start. She knew some of the victims and had a lucky escape. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted January 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2015 Archive film shown on BBC 'Midlands Today'....quite shocking in its views of destruction and devastation.Loco shown on film is Barrow Road's (22A) Black 5 45274. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Official investigation report at the Railway Archive http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_SuttonColdfield1955.pdf. I remember when I first read about the accident and at the time regularly used the Cross City, it was quite sobering to see even in the 1990s the odd tell-tale patched platform facings, damage to the rear wall and of course the complete loss of the Lichfield platform's canopy which linked back to the events of that day. It's also said that a number of people over the years have felt uneasy or cold in the waiting room which was used on the day as a makeshift mortuary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 There's been quite a bit written about this event in the two most recent editions of the Sutton Coldfield Observer, and there seems to be a bit of momentum gathering to get a memorial of some kind placed at the station, which I think would be fitting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 This was the main door into The Station pub, behind the camera is the entrance to the up platform. It is said that this door was sealed in respect of those whose mortal remains were carried through it when it was used as a temporary mortuary after the crash. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Sutton+Coldfield,+West+Midlands/@52.564784,-1.824662,3a,75y,105.12h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOUOdXZvpPhopv_BrLqPkrw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4870a38067f98b8b:0x68bece686cac86a9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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