Ashley Hill
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Penzance-Portsmouth via Westbury
Penzance-Milford Haven
Penzance-Milford Haven
St Botolph's, no? Or is this some local reference I don't get?Through Sudbury - St Osyth's ? ( Colchester Town)
Services that used to run in BR Days, POST BEECHING, that no longer run now.
This includes services which ran during the BR Days between 1965 until privatisation, you can include services which ceased after privatisation as long as they existed before then.
The title and description is very wide-ranging. Do you mean any service that ran between 1965 and 1996, or do they have to have been running in 1965?
For example, the Poole-Newcastle/Leeds service didn't run in its BR Crosscountry form until 1967 (it had predecessors though), and the XC routes to Brighton etc didn't start till around 1980.
Are we including lines closed that were NOT in Beeching, eg Swanage?
Taking the broadest interpretation:
Victoria (C) - Beckenham Jn
Through trains to Bromley N
SR Continental services...
Drayton Park - Broad St
The Summer Saturdays Virgin service was, I thought, a franchise commitment for the first few years and, though that doesn't necessarily mean it was carried over from BR, I think in this case it was.
Virgin possibly decided that the market for people wanting to travel from Birmingham and Coventry to Margate or Ramsgate for a holiday was limited and instead aimed at the enthusiast one by providing a variety of traction. On the two occasions I used it (and came back on the return working)it was reasonably loaded and the majority of passengers seemed to be traction enthusiasts. It may have only run for one summer with Virgin.
Does London Bridge - London Bridge via Tulse Hill, Streatham Common and Selhurst count? Or anything between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars?
The direct trains between Scotland and the South West via the WCML
There was also Victoria to London Bridge via Peckham Rye