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Birmingham’s Railways A Decade of Change

Published by Amberley Publishing

www.amberley-books.com
ISBN: 9781398117341
Price: £15.99

AS this issue of Rail Express was being put together, Alstom Class 730s were finally entering traffic in the West Midlands, and so the publication of this book feels incredibly timely.

Produced in the standard 96-page paperback design you come to expect from the publisher, this publication seeks to present a photographic survey of the railway scene in and around Birmingham in the

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