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Indeed, operating as nothing much more than a regional stopper, making 9 station calls and taking around 100 minutes to cover just 68 miles between Temple Meads and Foregate Street.

I’ve noticed that a number of Birmingham to Hereford services have been formed of just two carriages recently. Even pre-Covid, some services on this route had five carriages and were often full. I note that West Midlands Trains does not release information to the various real-time running...

Malvern Road station (on the former through route up to Cheltenham Racecourse - the Racecourse station now used by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, as you say) was indeed closer to the town centre than the current Cheltenham Spa station at Lansdown. Even closer to town was Cheltenham...

It's just the same with the two sleepers across the track.

This service takes the Gloucester route as it's booked to continue to Bristol via the Severn Tunnel.

The 1973 timetable shows around 38 weekday services in each direction between Cardiff and Pontypridd. For a period in the 70s (but not in 1973) hourly six-car services ran non-stop from Queen Street to Pontypridd where the units would indeed split for Merthyr and Treherbert. In addition, an...

Not from memory but I have a 1998 timetable and the 07.05 Great Western service from Hereford to Paddington via Worcester completed the journey in 2hrs 45 (Paddington 09.50 arrival). Most other services on this route took around three hours in 1998.

Captured perfectly by Google Maps in 2020 with a 150 coupled to a Pacer crossing over it... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4830928,-3.1711183,3a,41.8y,103.55h,95.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZDxQYjZ_m5PagbIl9ox3vw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Indeed. Before Covid, there used to be one non-stop service from New Street to Euston taking 72 minutes, departing at 07.30 Mon-Fri .

Preferably with a call at Worcestershire Parkway

The service is shown on RTT calling at Worcestershire Parkway from the start of the new timetable on 18 May https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C86804/2020-05-18/detailed

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K05702/2019-12-09/detailed 170272 (2-car in TfW branding) just seen speeding through Worcestershire on its way from Tyseley to Canton

It's dark so I was unable to get numbers, but I've just seen two 3-car 170s in GA livery with a 153 in TfW livery at the rear speeding through Worcestershire.

I saw a three-car 170 in GA colours heading south on the Worcestershire/Gloucestershire border around 15:50 but it was too dark to get the number.

Now cancelled... https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K05341/2019-11-22/detailed