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  • “Bilston and Wolverhampton from Steam Days to Tramway” by Michael Smyth

    CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Wolverhampton was served by two mainlines, the ex GWR route from Paddington and the ex LMS route from Euston.  BR's investment in the 1960s was focused entirely on the ex LMS route, and once the full electric service to Euston began in March 1967 the GWR route to Birmingham went into terminal decline and closed…

  • “1972 – That Was The Year That Was” by Geoff Plumb

    CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    We are delighted to welcome Geoff Plumb again for another of his selections of images covering the wide variety of motive power at work on the railways, this time in the year 1972.

  • “The Soham Disaster” by Richard Munns

    CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Following his highly successful talk on the railways of March in last year's programme, local railway historian Richard Munns pays another very welcome visit to the Branch to take us trough the infamous accident at Soham on June 2nd 1944.