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    Wolverhampton to Walsall - route changed May 2016

    A "direct" Wolverhampton and Walsall service, via Crane Street, Portobello, Darlaston and Pleck Junctions, 6m 55c, in 12mins, was introduced in 1998. Poor patronage due to many reasons, all of which could have been solved, saw the service "unoffically" withdrawn in Dec 2008, reduced from...
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    46009 - Operation Smash Hit - 17th July 1984

    Today (17th July 2014) is the 30th Anniversary of "Operation Smash Hit" - a public demonstration organised by the Atomic Industry to reassure a sceptical public about the safely of transporting nuclear waste by rail. What memories do you have of that fateful day? The day 46009 took her last...
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    Traffic using Wolverhampton Steel Terminal

    Can anyone list the trains booked to work to/from Wolverhampton Steel Terminal for each day of the week? My main interest is where these trains come from, and where they go when leaving the terminal. I assume the terminal takes delivery of steel bars and rolls, and returns empty trains...
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    Longbridge Car Plant

    Now that Nanjing Automotive has started a very small production line at the former Rover plant. Does anyone know if the car kits sent to the plant from China are being taken in by rail? Will the assembled cars be taken out by rail? - as Nanjing's production here is said to be for the European...

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