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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Tyseley Shed: gwrt1083
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Looking across Tyseley shed from Warwick Road towards the
Repair Shop with the two roundhouses accommodating passenger and goods
locomotives on the left. In the foreground can be seen the traditional method
of storing of coal prior to the days when this was handled mechanically. This
labour intensive method of working would have seen the coal unloaded by hand
contained within walls built using dry stone walling techniques and coal
in-filled between. Rod Liddiard, ex-Tyseley and Old Oak Common fireman, writes,
'This view shows that the coal was laid on top of rails so that wagons could be
loaded within the stockpile and not as often seen elsewhere alongside the coal.
The view shown is from halfway down Roma Road (West side of the shed). Warwick
Road (A41) is behind the shed in the view shown. Roma road built by the GWR to
house its staff. Off the bottom of the picture is a small brook which I and
countless other spotters over the years would jump across to gain access to the
shed.'
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