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

Over one million passengers use Lichfield Trent Valley station!

For the first time ever, over a million passengers have used this station in one year. Official figures just released by the Office of Rail Regulation show that, including those who changed trains there, 1,042,488 passengers used the station in the 12 months to 31st March 2014.… more

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

A million passengers at Lichfield Trent Valley

December 2014 Newsletter

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