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    Anyone remember the Birmingham Heartlands station proposal?

    I don't think not going to central Brum is a problem - places like Bristol work fine, although granted Heartlands might be a bit further. Hasn't been a problem for places like Lyon though where the main TGV station is in a second centre area; I guess the main problems were the state of the...
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    Anyone remember the Birmingham Heartlands station proposal?

    The sole bits of info I've gleaned about the majority of Intercity passengers passing through/connecting on IC services would make it surely a good proposal for Intercity on the whole; services would probably be more reliable and a tad quicker (as not held up behind slower services) via...
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    Anyone remember the Birmingham Heartlands station proposal?

    Hey, newbie on the board here :) Flicking through my copy of the newish "Regional Railways Story", there's mention of a proposed early 1990s "Birmingham Heartlands" station as a replacement Intercity station. It would have replaced the very congested New Street station, although we'd just be...

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