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The Snow Hill Lines is the collective name for the railway lines running through Birmingham Snow Hill, and Birmingham Moor Street stations in Birmingham, United Kingdom. [1] [2] They form an important part of the suburban rail network of Birmingham, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. All other lines to/through Birmingham use Birmingham New Street ...
The Birmingham–Peterborough line is a cross-country railway line in the England, linking Birmingham, Leicester and Peterborough, via Nuneaton, Oakham and Stamford [1]. Since the Beeching Axe railway closures in the 1960s, it is the only direct railway link between the West Midlands and the East of England.
It opened as the northernmost stretch of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (B&GR) in December 1840 and ran from Gloucester to a temporary terminus at Camp Hill.The line was extended into Curzon Street – the main station in Birmingham at that time – in August the following year; with the original Camp Hill terminus being split into a smaller passenger station and a goods station, the ...
The Birmingham–Bristol section was built as the Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Railways [n 1] before joining the Midland Railway, the southern forerunner to the cross-country route. From Birmingham to the north-northeast, the line had three separately owned sections, namely the:
A large number of railway lines meet at Birmingham New Street railway station, which is a hub of the UK rail network and is the calling point for most intercity services to and from Birmingham. [5] Trains to London Marylebone operated by Chiltern Railways stop at Moor Street station, and most continue to Snow Hill station. [6]
The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway system in 1845. The idea for a railway line between Bristol and Birmingham was put forward during the construction of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. 78,000 tons of goods were conveyed from Birmingham to Bristol annually, a journey that took nearly a week, and the cost of the journey was high.
The Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line is a railway line which runs from Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester via Stourbridge and Kidderminster in the West Midlands, England. It is one of the Snow Hill Lines , with trains operated by West Midlands Trains and Chiltern Railways using a variety of rolling stock including Class 172 and ...
A full replica of the Cross-City line was released for the Train Simulator franchise in March 2021 and on Train Sim World 3 in November 2022 by Dovetail Games, both featuring the Class 323. [citation needed] There is a highly detailed reproduction of the part between Redditch and Birmingham New Street for the free train simulators BVE and ...