A freight - heavy timetable showing just how far the freight - passenger balance has moved over the years. For
passengers there is only a roughly hourly service to Kidderminster, not always that ‘clockface’, with just 7 trains a day
onwards to Worcester !
A fair proportion of the freight is still running via Dudley which was a through line in 1975. There are a number of banking and pilot moves up the hills to Rowley Regis or Round Oak, and trips to all the sidings.
Some variation is included with day of week (TUE/WED/THU/FRI) and chemical / oil trains running as required.
Things are eased slightly by the panel signalling, in 1975 it was still conventional block & semaphores.
Sources are 1975 WTT’s and 1971 trip notice.

See pdf file in the zip for more information and image links