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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...

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...

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...

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...

In the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, the Wolverhampton - Birmingham stopping services extended to Coventry. But without having an actual timetable at hand, I’m perplexed as to how this worked in practice. I know the Coventry locals had to leave New Street 3 minutes after the Euston service so they...

Based on bits of information from different parts of this forum and my own hazy recollections of this time, I’ve tried to piece together what the service pattern on the Snow Hill lines was like before the big timetable change in December 2004. At the eastern end I believe services were half...

I’ve read in discussions on here before that Sunday train services on the local lines around Birmingham became almost non existent almost overnight at some point in the 1960’s and have still not fully recovered. Does anyone have any details about exactly how bad things were and when they...

It’s slightly hard to believe that once upon a time Kirkconnel was the only intermediate station between Dumfries and Kilmarnock. No fewer than four stations were reopened between Carlisle and Kilmarnock between 1984 and 1994. But looking at the line on a map, it seems as though stations were...

I’ve read before that the only reason Birmingham Moor Street didn’t close at the same time as Snow Hill in 1972 was because there was insufficient capacity at New Street for the local services from Leamington and Stratford to be re-routed there. Given how basic the frequencies were on some...

When the WCML upgrade took place on the 2000’s, were there ever plans to four track Shugborough tunnel and grade separate Colwich junction? These seem like obvious anomalies and capacity constraints. Was this ever seriously considered?

Hi. I’m new here and wondering if anyone can help. I’m looking at buying a house near the railway in the Hednesford area and I’m wondering about potential noise issues. I understand diesel freight trains no longer run to Rugeley power station and the lime is now only used by electric...