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Well Wikipedia wasn't much help ! All it says about regional transfers affecting the LMR is
"During the time of the LMR's existence there were a number of transfers of territory to and from other regions. The major changes were:
In 1949 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, which was wholly surrounded by Eastern lines and almost completely cut off from the rest of the LMR network, was transferred to the Eastern.
In 1958 a major re-drawing of the regional boundaries took place. LMR lines in South Wales and south-west of Birmingham were transferred to the Western; lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire went to the Eastern Region and in the present-day West and North Yorkshire to the North Eastern Region. In return the London Midland gained the lines of the former Great Central Railway that lay outside Yorkshire and Lincolnshire."
Doesn't even mention the transfer of ex GWR lines in the West Midlands, which I am sure was 1963. Derby Friargate was ex GNR, but maybe they are lumping it in with ex GCR lines ?
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