I'm in my mid seventies, and dearly hope I can visit Birmingham one day. The Tramway system seems excellent, and what a lovely city to visit. I live in Brisbane, that's in Queensland, Australia. We're such a long way away from western Europe. However, ONE DAY!!!
Thanks John for your kind comments. Birmingham isn't a bad city at all despite the rap it gets mostly from English people. Hopefully you can watch Birmingham live from your tv this summer when the city hosts the 2022 Commonweath games in July/August ;-)
Nice to see a bit of green at 4:04. The city looks really nice, but really needs a lot more plants and trees. It is a lot of concrete and just buildings. Doing this one thing would improve the city so much. If every shop could just put a few plants outside, even that would help.
Well the fact is Birmingham is the greenest City in the UK with more parks and green areas than any other City, 3 of the biggest parks are Cannon Hill Park in Edgebaston, The Lickey Hills Country Park at Longbridge and Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield plus loads of other parks dotted around the City and the City Center is dotted with flower beds every where. it is full of concrete and buildings as this is the City Center of Birmingham
@@peterwilliamallen1063 City center is what I am talking about. They need to create more smaller green areas instead of just paving over with a sea of concrete.
@@QueenBee-mk8xm How do you put large areas of green areas in a massive shopping Center, you go to other City Centers and you do not find swaths of green areas in the City Centers
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Read carefully. I wrote smaller areas. There are many areas of London that have been or are being regenerated and they are purposely incorporating smaller areas of green throughout and planting trees as well instead of having just concrete and nothing else.
Good observation Teh N00b, they are excatly the same type of Tram and had the same problems a few months ago. Both the trams in Birmingham and Sydney had to be taken out of service due to cracks found in both trams. Spanish built trams ;-(
Of course they are QueenBee, that's the whole point of a tram. To integrate cars, people and bicycles. And the reason why they have a horn to warn pedestrians it is coming.
is it easy to maintain the road with rails in between? does the train follow the same motor traffic? or they give a way for the train to pass first? what about the head wires? are they high enough for the convenience of double decker bus, or other big vehicles?
Most of the Metro in Birmingham runs on pedestrian streets and doesn't run on busy main roads, however this is now changing as the Metro expands arcoss the city. Also some parts of the Metro runs on batteries and doesn't need overhead wires, however I can cnfirm the wires are high enough for double decker buses to run underneath.
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Hi Cameron, I've never really thought about it tbh. There are stretches of track where they pick up speed but they do go slower in the much more built up area's. Trams are relatively new to the centre of Birmingham unlike other European cities so maybe they go slower as a precautionary measure until folk get used to them ??
You say this is a comprehensive look - but it is just a look! No commentary or explanation? How big is the system, how do you buy a ticket? Is it good etc etc etc ...??
At the moment it is about 17 miles long with City Street running in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, once it leaves Birmingham Snow Hill it joins the old Great Western Railway line to Wolverhampton where speeds of about 50 mph are maintained between stops, this is why it is called a metro not a tram or street as most of the line is on old Railway lines, there is a branch in Birmingham City Center to the HS2 terminus in Curzon Street which will eventually reach Birmingham Airport and a Branch off o Dudley and Merry Hill shopping Center, Tickets are purchased from a Conductor or from a sales outlet.
It's just new name for them, because its travels fast almost speed like trains mostly on former railway lines in urban areas, then acts like trams in city centers streets
It may look like a tram in this video, but when it leaves the City Centro at Snow Hill it diverts onto an old Railway line and becomes a Metro tram obtaining speeds of around 50 MPH between stops.
@@malcolmgeorge1180 That accounts for many highfloor trams replaced by CAF's. For instance a year ago, the whole fleet of comfortable SIG Trams was replaced by low floor CAF's in Utrecht.
It is called "The Midland Metro" as it runs as a tram in the City but as a metro in the outskirts running on an old redundant Railway line between Birmingham and Wolverhampton
I'm in my mid seventies, and dearly hope I can visit Birmingham one day. The Tramway system seems excellent, and what a lovely city
to visit. I live in Brisbane, that's in Queensland, Australia. We're such a long way away from western Europe. However, ONE DAY!!!
Thanks John for your kind comments. Birmingham isn't a bad city at all despite the rap it gets mostly from English people. Hopefully you can watch Birmingham live from your tv this summer when the city hosts the 2022 Commonweath games in July/August ;-)
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Hope to go on this in Sept its so pretty
Nice to see a bit of green at 4:04. The city looks really nice, but really needs a lot more plants and trees. It is a lot of concrete and just buildings. Doing this one thing would improve the city so much. If every shop could just put a few plants outside, even that would help.
I agree with your comments, we need to make the centre of Birmingham more green.
Well the fact is Birmingham is the greenest City in the UK with more parks and green areas than any other City, 3 of the biggest parks are Cannon Hill Park in Edgebaston, The Lickey Hills Country Park at Longbridge and Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield plus loads of other parks dotted around the City and the City Center is dotted with flower beds every where. it is full of concrete and buildings as this is the City Center of Birmingham
@@peterwilliamallen1063 City center is what I am talking about. They need to create more smaller green areas instead of just paving over with a sea of concrete.
@@QueenBee-mk8xm How do you put large areas of green areas in a massive shopping Center, you go to other City Centers and you do not find swaths of green areas in the City Centers
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Read carefully. I wrote smaller areas. There are many areas of London that have been or are being regenerated and they are purposely incorporating smaller areas of green throughout and planting trees as well instead of having just concrete and nothing else.
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Am I the only one who thinks the trams look a lot like the ones in Sydney or is that just me?
Good observation Teh N00b, they are excatly the same type of Tram and had the same problems a few months ago. Both the trams in Birmingham and Sydney had to be taken out of service due to cracks found in both trams. Spanish built trams ;-(
Are people allowed to run across in front of the trams like that?
Of course they are QueenBee, that's the whole point of a tram. To integrate cars, people and bicycles. And the reason why they have a horn to warn pedestrians it is coming.
is it easy to maintain the road with rails in between? does the train follow the same motor traffic? or they give a way for the train to pass first? what about the head wires? are they high enough for the convenience of double decker bus, or other big vehicles?
Most of the Metro in Birmingham runs on pedestrian streets and doesn't run on busy main roads, however this is now changing as the Metro expands arcoss the city. Also some parts of the Metro runs on batteries and doesn't need overhead wires, however I can cnfirm the wires are high enough for double decker buses to run underneath.
Is it called Light Rail otherwise?
They are called lots of things in the UK, but yes lIght Rail is sometimes used.
Awesome video and what that song called
There are various different songs mate, lol. Which one are you talking about ?
@@brumxplanecrazytube first one
@@brumxplanecrazytube no need to be rude
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is it me or do the Birmingham Trams go much much slower than trams in European countries?
Hi Cameron, I've never really thought about it tbh. There are stretches of track where they pick up speed but they do go slower in the much more built up area's. Trams are relatively new to the centre of Birmingham unlike other European cities so maybe they go slower as a precautionary measure until folk get used to them ??
@@brumxplanecrazytube Maybe - Thanks anyway
I think Manchester trams are slower than these
@@malcolmgeorge1180 They are certainly noisy, I visited Manchester in August.
@@brumxplanecrazytube yes they're noisier too🤯😁🤣
You say this is a comprehensive look - but it is just a look! No commentary or explanation? How big is the system, how do you buy a ticket? Is it good etc etc etc ...??
At the moment it is about 17 miles long with City Street running in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, once it leaves Birmingham Snow Hill it joins the old Great Western Railway line to Wolverhampton where speeds of about 50 mph are maintained between stops, this is why it is called a metro not a tram or street as most of the line is on old Railway lines, there is a branch in Birmingham City Center to the HS2 terminus in Curzon Street which will eventually reach Birmingham Airport and a Branch off o Dudley and Merry Hill shopping Center, Tickets are purchased from a Conductor or from a sales outlet.
Are you sure that is a metro looks a lot like a tram honeee
Tram networks in the UK are called Metro honeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ;-) Take Care
@@brumxplanecrazytube not the case in Edinburgh what the Edinburgh Trams or the Blackpool trams or the London city link trams welllllllll hon xxx
@@TAZVP Well in Manchester (Metrolink) and Birmingham (WM Metro) it is a Metro. Oh well Trams or a Metro, I am not going to lose sleep over it xxx
It's just new name for them, because its travels fast almost speed like trains mostly on former railway lines in urban areas, then acts like trams in city centers streets
It may look like a tram in this video, but when it leaves the City Centro at Snow Hill it diverts onto an old Railway line and becomes a Metro tram obtaining speeds of around 50 MPH between stops.
Still prefer the T69s
No way jose , they would look a bit old on the network now ?
@@brumxplanecrazytube true but I do miss them
I loved their motor sounds
@@dodge2322 the old one had better comfortable seats to caf's
@@malcolmgeorge1180 That accounts for many highfloor trams replaced by CAF's.
For instance a year ago, the whole fleet of comfortable SIG Trams was replaced by low floor CAF's in Utrecht.
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This is not Metro, I think it is Tram
It is called "The Midland Metro" as it runs as a tram in the City but as a metro in the outskirts running on an old redundant Railway line between Birmingham and Wolverhampton
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Ok, thank you so much for the clarification
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