GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd681

Hockley's accommodation for plant and machinery workshops located on the edge of the canal basin site circa 1960. The workshops were situated across the road from the new invoicing (Top) office with an entrance off Crabtree Road. Originally the wheelwrights and farriers were housed in the building and the small block on the left was used as the veterinary's office and dispensary. The raised water tank stored the water pumped up from the artesian well and was of such height above the ground that it provided sufficient pressure to be used at all GWR facilities from Soho to Tyseley.

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