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.

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…

  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…

  The weather during the winter months at the beginning of 2010 were especially severe disrupting rail services over much of Britain.  Thanks to extra efforts by the maintenance staff the Class 139 railcars were able to maintain almost normal…

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 on their way to join trains at the Junction station taking them to London,…