Black on white, fabric blind. London Midland
Region, Midlands area, prior to absorbtion of Western Region.
There are no GWR destinations (apart from LEAMINGTON, which
LMR units would have reached from Coventry) and it has not been
thought necessary to specify which station in Birmingham the DMU
is going to. NEWCASTLE would be Newcastle-under-Lyme in
Staffordshire.
Paul Williams notes: "In the 1950s the Stoke -
Market Drayton line was cut back to Silverdale. The line from
Silverdale to Stoke was then also closed in 1964 or 1965, can't
recall off the top of my head; but I believe that a few trains for
workmen continued to use the line as far as Newcastle for a while
longer, dating the blind quite accurately to around this time."
BIRMINGHAM
BROWNHILLS
BURTON-ON-TRENT
COVENTRY
DERBY
DUDLEY
EXCURSION
FOUR OAKS
LEAMINGTON
LEICESTER
LICHFIELD
MANCHESTER
NEWCASTLE
NORTHAMPTON
NUNEATON
PETERBOROUGH
REDDITCH
RUGBY
RUGELEY
SPECIAL
STAFFORD
STECHFORD
STOKE-ON-TRENT
TAMWORTH
WALSALL
WOLVERHAMPTON
