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For the same reason, the Chiltern line was used by many trains between Paddington and Birkenhead from 1965. All local trains were diverted to Marylebone in 1963 and operated by four-car Class 115 diesel multiple units (DMUs) and the main-line platforms at Greenford, on the New North route between Old Oak Common and Northolt Junction, were closed.
By early 1967, there were still six through trains on weekdays between Birkenhead Woodside and London Paddington. In March of that year, the route was effectively curtailed at Wolverhampton, as a result of the introduction of electric trains on the West Coast Main Line. [9]
The GWR main line remained incomplete during the construction of the 1-mile-1,452-yard (2.94 km) Box Tunnel, which was ready for trains on 30 June 1841, after which trains ran the 152 miles (245 km) from Paddington through to Bridgwater. [15]
For some time it had become increasingly obvious that the continuation of the broad gauge was limited. The importance of the Birkenhead traffic, carried on the narrow (standard) gauge Shrewsbury lines emphasised this; the GWR installed mixed gauge track right into Paddington station, and Birkenhead trains ran narrow gauge throughout.
Saltney was a minor railway station located on the Great Western Railway's Paddington to Birkenhead line a few miles west of Chester, England. Although the station is now closed, the route is still open today as part of the Shrewsbury to Chester Line .
The line which travelled through the station bore trains from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, but only local trains from Woodside to Chester, West Kirby, Helsby and North Wales served the station.