IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Somerset Road, BIRMINGHAM, B15 2QH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Somerset Road, B15 2QH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (90 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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1
Chapel and Old Building
The Queen's Foundation: an ecumenical theological college in Birmingham.
Image: © John H Darch
Taken: 4 Apr 2014
0.02 miles
2
Somerset Road, Edgbaston
At its junction with Farquhar Road.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 3 Dec 2022
0.04 miles
3
Farquhar Road, Edgbaston
At its junction with Somerset Road.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 3 Dec 2022
0.06 miles
4
Somerset Road, Edgbaston
Looking west from the railway bridge.
Image: © Phil Champion
Taken: 21 Jan 2006
0.08 miles
5
Entrance to BMI The Edgbaston Hospital, Somerset Road
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 4 Feb 2009
0.09 miles
6
Birmingham & Worcester Canal and railway line
Looking southwest from Somerset Road. Pritchatts Road crosses the railway line and canal at the bridges in the distance. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was built to link the River Severn to Birmingham & the Black Country. The railway line originally formed the former Midland Railway's West Suburban Railway, opened in 3rd April 1876. The line was electrified in the 1970s to form the Cross City Line, and is heavily used. The passing train is a longer distance central trains service.
Image: © Phil Champion
Taken: 21 Jan 2006
0.09 miles
7
Railway and Canal near Edgbaston, Birmingham
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal runs alongside the railway which bring trains in to Birmingham from Redditch and Worcester. I'm not quite sure which route this Class 323 was on; the train to Lichfield followed just two minutes behind it!
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 25 Aug 2010
0.10 miles
8
Railway and canal near Edgbaston, Birmingham
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was built in the mid 1790s here, and fully open to Worcester by 1815. The Midland Railway was opened here in 1876. The railway now brings in lines from Redditch and Worcester, running close to the canal all the way to the city centre.
Somerset Road Bridge (No 84) over the canal is about a hundred metres ahead. The top of this bridge would have been raised when the railway bridge was built needing a greater headroom.
From Wikipedia I extract: The Class 170 "Turbostar" is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) built by Bombardier Transportation (and previously ADtranz) at their Derby Litchurch Lane Works, England. Introduced after privatisation, they have operated as regional trains as well as long-distance trains, and to a lesser extent suburban trains. 122 units have been built.
Midland Mainline (MML) was the first operator to order Turbostars, with the first being introduced in MML's green and tangerine livery in 1998. It is unclear where the unit in this image is going - Cardiff (from Nottingham) via Bristol (or just Bristol) has been suggested, but the only timetables I have seen don't tally, but they often don't!!
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 8 Sep 2008
0.10 miles
10
Railway and Canal near Edgbaston, Birmingham
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal runs alongside the railway which brings trains in to Birmingham from Redditch and Worcester. This Class 323 locomotive is on the Cross City Line to Lichfield (Trent Valley) via Birmingham, and was less than three minutes behind the previous train.
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Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 25 Aug 2010
0.10 miles