Marsden Rail 8: Birmingham One (2003)

The railway map of Birmingham and the west Midlands was extremely complicated with the Midland, London North Western and Great Western railways competing for traffic. This title looks at the area's disappearing rail network of the 1960's, from the Lickey Incline in the south to the Trent Valley line in the north and from Hatton in the east to Oxley in the west. The main line diesel had not invaded these areas in 1963, so ex-LMS and GWR locos were hard at work handling the wide variety of trains for which they had been designed, from long distance freights to branch line pick-up goods.