It is one of our all day freight days and we start things off with one station and that station being our "local" freight hot spot on the West Coast Main Line in Rugeley Trent Valley

The main line had opened back in September 1847 and the station along with it. The line from Cannock was added by the Cannock Mineral Railway in 1859. On 25th May 1998 the Chase Line was extended back into Rugeley Trent Valley from Birmingham New Street & Walsall. Services had previously been withdrawn in January 1965, as a result of the Beeching Axe. From the mid-1960s until 1998, it was served only by local stopping trains between Stafford & either Rugby or Coventry; these were withdrawn in 2004 when work began to upgrade the main line to four tracks, with bus replacements operating until London Midland introduced the present semi-fast service between London Euston & Crewe via Stafford in 2008. The station was the location of The Queen's naming of Class 67 locomotive No. 67029 Royal Diamond, marking her diamond wedding anniversary with Prince Phillip, on 12th October 2007.

Nowadays, in this video, we see a variety of London Midlands and Virgin Trains stock heading for a variety of destinations including London Euston, Birmingham New Street, Glasgow Central, Crewe and Chester

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