Camp Hill Line

[Rob H]

I would be grateful if anyone could confirm which Cross Country trains are worked by HSTs.

At the moment on in the week:
1V44 06:00 Leeds to Plymouth returns as 1S51 12:24 Plymouth to Glasgow Central
1V46 06:32 York to Plymouth returns as 1S53 13:24 Plymouth to Edinburgh (Mondays Only)
1V50 06:06 Edinburgh to Plymouth returns as 1E63 Plymouth to Leeds
1V54 06:32 Dundee to Plymouth returns as 1E73 Plymouth to Leeds (Fridays Only)

Saturdays until 7th September:
1V44 06:00 Leeds to Paignton returns as 1S51 12:34 Paignton to Glasgow Central
1V48 07:45 York to Penzance returns as 1E75 Penzance to Leeds
1V52 06:01 Glasgow Central to Paignton returns as 1E67 16:34 Paignton to Leeds
1V54 06:32 Dundee to Newquay returns as **** 20:00 Newquay to Plymouth

Saturday services from 14 September will see the following HST operated.

06:00 Leeds to Plymouth returns as 12:24 Plymouth to Glasgow Central (08:12 and 16:03 from Birmingham New Street)
08:05 Edinburgh Waverley to Plymouth returns as 17:24 Plymouth to Leeds (13:12 and 21:03 from Birmingham New Street)

Thank You for the info Roy :) Now I don't have to ask the guy who runs the Facebook page for them

[monkeyjoe]

With all these plans to reintroduce the east part of the Camp Hill line, where about would the new Castle Bromwich station be and where was the old one?

[Kevin]

With all these plans to reintroduce the east part of the Camp Hill line, where about would the new Castle Bromwich station be and where was the old one?

Logic would dictate it would be where the Chester Road crosses... Pretty sure that's where it would have been before because the layout of the 4 tracks seems to suggest there were 2 island platforms around there. I do feel with it's location right on the Chester Road and J5 on the M6 that it kinda needs to be a parkway station with thousands of parking spaces, and so traffic round there is going to get even more horrendous than it already is

[Tony]

With all these plans to reintroduce the east part of the Camp Hill line, where about would the new Castle Bromwich station be and where was the old one?

Logic would dictate it would be where the Chester Road crosses... Pretty sure that's where it would have been before because the layout of the 4 tracks seems to suggest there were 2 island platforms around there. I do feel with it's location right on the Chester Road and J5 on the M6 that it kinda needs to be a parkway station with thousands of parking spaces, and so traffic round there is going to get even more horrendous than it already is

Yes it was on Chester Road, had a magnificent booking office on the bridge there. There were two Island platforms, but the outer edges were not used as they were the goods lines.

A pretty good history and photographs can be seen on this page
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/castle_bromwich/index.shtml