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Colin Rosenstiel writes
Eh, lad, I can remember when the Birmingham Cross-City service (well, the
Southern bit at least) consisted of only three trains a day!

Incredible now but absolutely true, as you say.

The northern bit (theoretically linked with the Stourbridge line in the
early seventies) wasn't significantly better, either.......
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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