GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Station: gwrms1217

View of Moor Street station's 30 ton traverser sited in the lower shed 'B' which was used to transfer wagons from the lift to the sidings or from the sidings to the lift. Shed B is provided with eight parallel lines of sidings some of which are only a few feet apart. The traverser runs the full width of the shed, some 256 feet, at the Park Street end. The perishable market traffic dealt with in the early morning in this shed required the most rapid handling possible. This accounts for the high speed of the large lifts and it was essential that the traverser should not only have a correspondingly high speed but be able to stop very accurately at any of the sidings. This is accomplished by the use of Hele Shaw oil pressure transmission gear.

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