More March Updates

I've been making the most of a break from work by supplying a few updates to the WME galleries and also giving some attention to the WME Canal Register. Here's the latest...

Heading the roll call this time around is the unfamiliar figure of WME Telford - yes, this most neglected of galleries has actually received some new content, shock horror! As if that wasn't unbelievable enough, I actually have a new collection to report, a canal related collection no less, as the Newport Branch makes an appearance thanks to a couple of views looking from Newport Bridge out towards Edgmond. I hope to flesh this collection out a bit more soon, as I just have to tidy up a couple of views of Newport Basin and then they'll be ready for inclusion. Completing a veritable feast of additions by Telford standards is a view of Newport Interchange joining the Bus Stops and Stations collection.

Where to next? Let's drop in on WME Walsall, which also boasts a new collection in Exploring Brownhills West. The starter photos here comprise a shot each of the Rising Sun and Waterside pubs, bringing back memories of a visit to Chasewater with Rog last June. If you think those photos are old, I've raided the archive from April 2007 to dig out two shots of an Arriva liveried Leyland National operating the 319 route in Bloxwich - the bus was a bonus spot during the Chase Farewell Running Day.

To WME Dudley, where my recent mini-rash of new collections has been augmented further with the arrival of Exploring Bromley. Again we're talking two starter shots (the Fox & Goose pub and the local shops in this case), and with the likes of Upper Gornal, Brockmoor and Woodside also containing the bare minimum, I need to be careful that I'm not spreading the local content too thinly. One collection that certainly has no worries about being undersized is Dudley by Bus, which benefits further from my focus on the old 210 bus thanks to a photo of the route at Fatherless Barn, whilst the Birmingham Main Line Canal collection is also shaping up nicely with the arrival of two shots of Tunnel Bridge.

Elsewhere, we have notice of updates to WME Staffordshire (two nice Bridge 35 at Gnosall views on the Shropshire Union Canal) and WME Worcestershire (extra platform 3 pictures for Shrub Hill Station). WME Wolverhampton has been bubbling under, with trees at East Park, geese at West Park and the Freemasons Arms at Springfield all now featuring. Finally, as I mentioned in the intro to this post, the WME Canal Register has been brought pretty much bang up to date. There might be the odd little oversight here and there that I can correct where necessary, but I finally have an accurate record of the extent of my canal explorations, and I was somewhat surprised to discover this included further flung waterways such as the Macclesfield and Llangollen Canals. Now if only the WME galleries could be brought up to speed quite as easily...