Transport for Wales Class 158 units Nos. 158834 and 158839 pass Spon Lane, West Bromwich on Thursday 2 February 2023, with the 07.31 (1L10) Holyhead to Birmingham International service. This is the site of Spon Lane station, which was opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1852, and closed on 15 June 1964. This vista has been made possible by recent tree clearing work, but what protagonists of the ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign will make of the amount of litter left behind remains to be seen!. John Binch
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Welcome to the updated Railway Centre.Com website. Following transfer from our old servers to our new site earlier in the year, retaining a number of the original features, including our highly popular 'Picture of the Day', we are now getting over 10,000 hits per day, with the most popular pages being our Picture of the Day. By popular demand, and to provide as much information free of charge to fellow enthusiasts as possible. Our site changes now allow us to upload news items from a handheld smartphone or iPad and is thus less time consuming to maintain, it also allows us to upload last minute changes and follow important news stories - This service will be back soon. Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free. In the future, we will be producing a limited number of e-books - these will of course be chargeable on a one-off basis and be viewable on all modern computer and iPad equipment. Watch here for details.
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