LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Whitacre Junction Station: mrwj123a

This close up of image 'mrwj123' shows more clearly MR 0-6-0 No 2641 on the Hampton to Whitacre one-coach Parliamentary train. By 1844 the opening of alternative routes to both Birmingham and London saw the Hampton service rapidly decline down to one train per day from 1902. Whilst uneconomic the Midland Railway could not avoid its obligations under Parliamentary legislation until economy measures under the Emergency Act resulting from the First World War allowed its closure on 1st January 1917.

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