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I’ve just stumbled upon a series of videos on YouTube showing the goings on of the railway around Walsall from 1992 to 1995. Although I lived locally at the time, I don’t have many clear memories of railway and mainly of Centro livered 150’s from about 1995 onwards. The earliest video from 1992...

Thank you. I’m guessing this was when London to Manchester was hourly and the alternated between going via Stoke and Crewe, and when XC used to alternate between Manchester and Liverpool?

Today Kidsgrove station is well served by three groups of hourly services: Crewe-Newark, Manchester-Stoke & Stafford-Crewe, but am I correct that until the big WCML timetable change in 2008 it was only service by a Derby-Crewe service with the Manchester service being peak hours only? I believe...

Thanks for the help. Does anyone know how many diagrams there were on the Cross City back then? An educated guess would say 11, but I’m not sure how many were strengthened to 6 car and how many peak extras there were. I’m also guessing there were 5 on the Wolves - Coventry locals, 1 on the...

Today, the Birmingham Cross City line is an all 6 car Class 323 affair. But this wasn’t the case pre Covid when a majority of diagrams on the old 6tph service were only 3 car. Going further back to the early 2000’s, I’m wondering how many 3 & 6 car diagrams there were. My thinking is that...

Thank you for posting. That answers a lot of questions. The only thing I can’t seem to find mentioned is the London - Blackpool service. Is this being withdrawn completely?

Any idea what this will entail?

Any changes on the cards for WMR? They should have cleared the training backlog and the 730’s should be coming online by December. I’m aware of issues relating to the new Camp Hill Line service that will prevent the Cross City Line going back to 6tph, but they should be able to do 4tph to...

Just wondering if anyone can help confirm some rather hazy memories and bits of information I’ve picked up over the years about how services on the Chase Line have gradually improved over the years. My recollection is that it goes something like this: 1989 - hourly Walsall - Hednesford shuttle...

That timetable was a bit of an eye opener. Why so big a gap from Dorridge towards Birmingham on a Saturday morning? And only two Birmingham - Dorridge services on Sundays.

The 0738 Hednesford to Birmingham. Used to be the only service of the day to skip stops north of Walsall. It was annoying stopping at every station south of Walsall, but it broke up an otherwise 40 gap between arrivals at New Street in the morning peak. It’s started at Walsall since Dec 2011...

Thank you. I clearly remember going to Penkridge market as a child in the mid 90’s and seeing 310’s crossing Penkridge viaduct on the Liverpool - Birmingham route. They were regular visitors to Walsall as well. I think the last one ran in 2000. I’m fairly sure the Holyhead class 37’s used to...

And didn’t some extend beyond Reading to Brighton and Portsmouth 3-4 times per day. Was there also one or two to London Paddington or am I imagining that? I’m sure this has been discussed at length in another thread. I’m trying to jog my memory of the Birmingham-Wolves line at that time...

Are those crossovers actually used anymore? And just out of interest, what’s a switch diamond?

Interesting, thank you.