GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1189

View of the re-introduced refreshment trolley service provided to passengers and to coincide with the British Industrial Fair at Castle Bromwich in May 1949. The trolley service had been suspended ten years earlier at the outbreak of the Second World War. The British Industrial Fair had become a major event since the large complex of buildings were built in 1920 situated between Castle Bromwich Aerodrome and the Midland Railway's Birmingham to Water Orton railway line. For two weeks every year it was the most visited attraction in the country and was the major exhibition of the finest of British industrial goods. The site was sold in 1960, along with that of the airfield, with the site being cleared for the construction of the Castle Vale housing estate. The BIF was later replaced by the National Exhibition Centre.

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