gg1
Established Member
One oddity of the current Snow Hill station is the fact the platforms look capable of accommodating 12 coach trains, far in excess of what's ever been required, this has been the case since re-opening back in 1987.
Does anyone know what BR's thinking was behind this decision? The only 2 possibilities I can think of are:
Does anyone know what BR's thinking was behind this decision? The only 2 possibilities I can think of are:
- An aspiration to one day run full length HSTs or loco hauled Inter City services
- When the link to the Stourbridge line is reopened (which eventually happened 7 years after the Snow Hill re-opening), to operate the station as essentially a pair of terminii, with Leamington/Stratford services terminating at one end of the station and Stourbridge services at the other