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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag1068

Looking towards Birmingham from the Leamington end of the down main platform as passengers alight from an up local train on the up relief line

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 company’s initials and the small garden was a common station feature of the period.

Robert Ferris

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