WESTERN REGION: 3.45pm BIRMINGHAM SNOW HILL-SWANSEA    
                                                                    
     Engine: Castle class 4-6-0 no 4078 Pembroke Castle
     Load: 8 coaches, 250 tons tare, 270 tons full
                                                          
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     miles                          sch    m/sec    mi/hr           
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      0.00  BIRMINGHAM SNOW HILL     0      0:00 
      1.35  Bordesley                       2:45
      2.34  Small Heath                     4:18         
      3.33  Tyseley                         6:00      15*         
      4.20  Spring Road                     7:57               
      4.84  Hall Green                      9:04             
      6.08  Yardley                        10:49           
      7.33  Shirley                        12:27      48       
      8.23  Whitlocks End                  13:32      49         
      9.23  Wythall                        14:44      49½         
     10.24  Earlswood                      15:55      50½       
     12.18  Wood End                       17:59      58½    
     14.02  Danzey                         19:45      64       
     16.99  HENLEY IN ARDEN                22:25     69/70       
     18.75  Wootton Wawen                  23:58      69     
     21.25  Bearley West Jc                           53 
     22.36  Wilmcote                       27:38                    
     23.22  mp 10¾                         28:32      68
     25.01  STRATFORD ON AVON       30     30:51                    
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     Date: 1st April 1955:
                                                                    
     dep: Birmingham Snow Hill 3.45pm..Right time                    
     arr: Stratford on Avon 4.16pm..1 late
     
     The return Swansea working for an 87E loco.
                                                                   
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