100 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1923
Another through service
A NEW development is the inauguration of a through service between Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Brighton by the Great Western route, Reading and Redhill. It is associated with the popular service already in operation between Birkenhead, Chester, Wolverhampton and Birmingham and South Eastern & Chatham destinations. This further development being easily practicable now that the whole of the route south and south-east of Reading belongs to the Southern Railway.
The value of through services of this kind goes much beyond their direct importance, in that at both ends there are connecting trains for various destinations, but which involve easy and convenient changes, so that in practice, this service connects the whole of the Great Western system north of Wolverhampton and the various branches in the Birmingham district with the South Coast resorts east and west of Brighton.