Atherstone, Warwickshire - station, Diesel Series D224 loco - postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Diesel Series D.224 - British Rail Class 87 'City of Glasgow' at Atherstone [station, Warwickshire]
• Publisher:  Dennis
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Atherstone is a railway station serving the town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, England. It is located on the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line, exactly 102 miles from London Euston station, as a placard on an adjacent building announces. The station is conveniently located near the A5.

The station was opened by the London and North Western Railway, and was absorbed by the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

In 1860 it was the site of a rail accident in which 10 people died.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by the Regional Railways Sector until the Privatisation of British Railways. There was a threat to the Livock designed station building in the early 1980s, but thanks to the efforts of local group The Railway and Steam Traction Society demolition plans were put on hold. Eventually the building was fully restored by 1985, with Donald Willets using it as offices.

London Midland provide an hourly service in each direction; southbound to London Euston via Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes, and northbound to Crewe via Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent. This is a substantial increase in service from the 1980s and 1990s where the station saw just half a dozen local trains a day, none of which went further north than Stafford or further south than Rugby. Passenger use at the station has shown strong growth since the introduction of the new service.

The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive built from 1973–75 by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL). 36 of these locomotives were built to work passenger services over the West Coast Main Line (WCML). They were the flagships of British Rail's electric locomotive fleet until the late 1980s, when the Class 90s started to come on stream. The privatisation of British Rail saw all but one of the fleet transferred to Virgin Trains they continued their duties until the advent of the new Pendolino trains, when they were transferred to other operators or withdrawn. There is only one Class 87 still in use in Britain, and that is 87002, owned by the AC Locomotive Group but is solely used alongside 86101 for the occasional charter train. A large proportion of the fleet have now been exported to Bulgaria. 87002 is currently hired by Serco to work the empty coaching stock of the Caledonian Sleeper services.