{"id":3745,"date":"2024-02-07T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/off-to-unuversity-3\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:30:29","slug":"off-to-unuversity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/off-to-unuversity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Off To Unuversity (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gateways To Academe<\/span><\/p>\n … which is, by far, the most spectacular of all the entrances. Old Joe dominates the view as Joe Chamberlain once dominated the growing university.<\/p>\n According to Google Maps, North Gate has bus stops.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Next round the compass is the East<\/span> Gate. The Uni campus plan designates this as the “Main Entrance”.<\/p>\n Ironically, the only bus to stop there is the 1S …<\/p>\n The main entrance lacks the spectacular quality of the North Gate …<\/p>\n … but Old Joe peeps mischievously over the trees.<\/p><\/div>\n … trundling in reserved-track verdant splendour.<\/p>\n They would be the transport of choice to central Birmingham. By the mid 1950s buses 61, 62 and 63 were in evidence along the Bristol Road …<\/p>\n … still a poor partner for the entrance in the north.<\/p>\n Old Joe still stands guard!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … and still frequent – although not as frequent as were the trams!!<\/p>\n A bus every six minutes is not at all bad!<\/p><\/div>\n … though later PTE<\/span> …<\/p>\n … and even later PTE<\/span> …<\/p>\n … and on to today’s National Express\u00a0red<\/span>!<\/p>\n … here presented as a 1:76 model!<\/p><\/div>\n Tomorrow we move to the West<\/span> Gate where things are somewhat more complicated.<\/p><\/div>\n