Train operated by Virgin Train standing at the platform in Piccadilly Station. This is the 7.24 departure to Bournemouth, which I took on 20 Feb 2007 as part of my journey to Portsmouth.

Read my travelogue and review of Virgin Trains service to Oxford and Southampton

I can just about remember steam trains at Piccadilly Station, known from 1842 to 1960 as London Rd Station.

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