Lichfield Rail Promotion Group Newsletter – December 2014
Monthly Meetings
Our new venue, the upstairs meeting room of the Kings Head on Bird Street, is becoming established, and approved of by those attending; the date of the second Monday of each month at 20.00 is unchanged. Attendance averages about 12 members. Terry Oliver, London Midland’s Head of… more
A direct railway line leads from Lichfield to Burton and Derby but has no regular passenger trains, being used as a freight and diversionary route.
(Passenger services which had run since the 1840s—it was Lichfield’s first railway—were a victim of the Beeching cuts in the 1960s.)
We now believe that it is time to restart this service.
A change of venue for our September meeting, which will be held on Monday 8th September at 8pm as usual but in the upstairs meeting room of the Kings Head on Bird Street. This change to ensure privacy was to welcome Mark Goodall, London Midland’s Head of Line for Cross City; unfortunately he cannot… more