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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
Arley Tunnel: mrat1075
A three-car Craven DMU set leaves the eastern end of Arley
Tunnel 'wrong line' on Sunday 23rd October 1966. The spoil heap on the right
belongs to Haunchwood Colliery. The train forms the 11:40am Birmingham to
Leicester service and is running wrong line because of permanent way work. The
front of the DMU has a red tail lamp on front, as required by British Railway
driver's rule book, because of single line working in the wrong direction
through Arley tunnel. Tony Howell, who wrote to correct my original caption
states, 'my black rule book, issued from 1950 onwards including all the
amendments updated by an unknown driver and dated as from 28.9.1968 states the
following applies, when passing through a tunnel ,or after sunset or during
fog or falling snow , trains travelling over the single line in the wrong
direction must carry a red headlamp and all other headlamps and indicators
should be removed or switched off'.
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