Lichfield Rail Promotion Group

PHOTO: View over the National Memorial Arboretum

The National Memoral Arboretum at Alrewas, set in 150 acres of maturing woodland, is the UK’s living Centre of Remembrance. Derby Passenger Service Petition:
A Station for the National Memorial Arboretum

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.

Nationally,… more

September Meeting

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

December 2014 Newsletter

Derby Passenger Service Petition:
A Station for the National Memorial Arboretum

September 2014 Newsletter

September Meeting