GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - BR Locomotives: gwrls2070

An unidentified ex-GWR King Class locomotive speeds through the station on the non-stop down Inter-City express in 1958. The Inter-City was an express passenger service operated by the Western Region between London Paddington and Wolverhampton Low Level station calling only at Birmingham Snow Hill. It connected England's first and second cities, London and Birmingham. Introduced in 1950, the Inter-City can claim to be the origin of all later usages of the railway term "InterCity" (with or without a hyphen) worldwide. In the 1959-60 winter timetable, the train became just one of an hourly all-day restaurant-car service between Paddington and Wolverhampton, as the Western Region service was ramped up to compensate for the absence of trains on the West Coast Main Line during electrification work on the latter.

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