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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag1068
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Another photograph taken shortly after the station was
reconstructed in January 1907. The photographer is looking towards Birmingham
from the Leamington end of the up island platform as passengers alight from an
evening local train on the up relief line. The carriages are unganged four or
six wheeled stock painted with chocolate brown waistcoats and a creamy white
upper. The panel mouldings were also brown, but edged with lines of black and
gold. This livery had been introduced in 1871, but by 1902 it was decided that
it was too difficult to keep clean and following a trial, the Great Western
Railway introduced an all over chocolate brown lined livery in September 1908.
The wide island platform is lit by gas lampposts which stand on a platform
formed from compacted fine gravel with a double row of paving stones forming
the platform edge. The station seats have cast supports displaying the
companys initials and the small garden was a common station feature of
the period.
Robert Ferris
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