GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Spring Road Platform: gwrsr649

Looking towards Birmingham from the down station with the up platform on the right during the 1950-60s. This photograph is thought to have been taken at the same time as image 'gwrsr292' best indicated by comparing the tree silhouetted against the sky. The GWR platform sign is starting to show its age and is complemented by the BR 'Totem' seen on the oil lamp post to its right. The post to the down signal can just be seen under the bridge. Access to the 'Platform' was via a sloping path on each side of the running lines. There was no barrow crossing as there were no staff to use them. It appears that from the beginning, the GWR regarded Spring Road as just the equivalent of an Edwardian commuter stop.

Robert Ferris

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