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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.
The Paddington to Birkenhead trunk passenger route was ended in 1967, and all through traffic was transferred from the GWR lines to the former LNWR route. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The line from Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton continued to carry a sparse local passenger service.
Ealing rail crash – 19 December 1973 – A train from Paddington to Oxford derailed after a loose battery box cover on the Class 52 "Western" locomotive hauling the train struck lineside equipment, causing a set of points to move under the train. Ten passengers were killed and 94 injured.
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System map of the Wirral Railway. The Chester and Birkenhead Railway opened on 23 September 1840. [note 1] This was the first penetration of the Wirral by a railway, and for some years no further attempt was made to build in the peninsula.
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 site, on which the station was built, was to the east of Birkenhead's original railway terminus at Grange Lane, which closed in 1844. [1] To the north lay two tunnel entrances; the first, completed in 1844, led to the town's second terminus at Monks Ferry.
The Birkenhead Railway was a railway company in North West England.It was incorporated as the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway (BL&CJR) in 1846 to build a line connecting the port of Birkenhead and the city of Chester with the manufacturing districts of Lancashire by making a junction near Warrington with the Grand Junction Railway.