Railway re-openings are always a cause for celebration and invariably see passenger forecasts vastly exceeded, as has most recently been the case with the Newcastle-Ashington Northumberland Line, so with no indication when the Oxford-Bletchley East-West Rail route will see its first passengers, it is good to be able to head to the West Midlands and sample opening day on the UK’s newest passenger service.
While the Northumberland Line was closed to passengers during the Beeching era (July 1964) and the Varsity Line from Oxford to Cambridge in January 1968, residents of Moseley and Kings Heath to the south of Birmingham have had to wait a good deal longer for the restoration of Camp Hill Line services, whose local stations were closed 85 years ago (in 1941) as a war-time economy measure.
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