Shrop
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I'm not sure if this is the right page for this but I wonder if anyone knows why the line from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton and London is the SLOWEST of the five lines radiating out of this county town?
The twisty and hilly route to Hereford has higher speeds along it, as do the lines to Chester, Crewe and Aberystwyth.
And yet way back in the 1970s I regularly logged class 47s reaching 90mph on the Wolves line.
In the 1990s, after trains had been limited to 70mph and had to suffer being overtaken by traffic on the parallel A5, a group of us had a meeting with rail Directors and were promised improved line speeds, which depended on improved signalling.
The signalling happened, but the speed improvements never did, and decades later this line remains an embarrassment.
The twisty and hilly route to Hereford has higher speeds along it, as do the lines to Chester, Crewe and Aberystwyth.
And yet way back in the 1970s I regularly logged class 47s reaching 90mph on the Wolves line.
In the 1990s, after trains had been limited to 70mph and had to suffer being overtaken by traffic on the parallel A5, a group of us had a meeting with rail Directors and were promised improved line speeds, which depended on improved signalling.
The signalling happened, but the speed improvements never did, and decades later this line remains an embarrassment.
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