PPM’s Chairman John Parry MBE with the presenter of “Invented In… The Midlands”, Professor Brendan Walker, on the right. The two sit at the PPM office discussing the flywheel technology of the People Mover railcars and trams.
Simple Question: Why should only the fortunate few live close to a railway station?
One simple question, we ask ‘Why should only the fortunate few live close to a railway station’. In the three decades prior to 1980, thousands of miles of railway routes in Britain went out of public transport use. This was…
Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo, the presenter with his ‘Bradshaws Guide’ after disembarking from the PPM Class 139 Railcar at Stourbridge Town.
Manufacturing
Parry People Movers Ltd vehicles are built by highly skilled engineers in well equipped rolling stock workshops supported by well experienced sub-assembly suppliers.
Stourbridge Railcar
On a typical morning scene during term time at local schools and colleges when the majority of passengers arriving at Stourbridge Town are students, whereas departing passengers are commuters to Birmingham.
Operations on Non Network Rail Lines
Former branchlines have been kept open by rail preservation societies and companies and the potential appears to exist to make use of the old lines to provide public services using the modern form of rail bus as developed by…