GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

The Lakes Halt: gwrtl10

Looking in the general direction of Birmingham. The sign on the down (far) platform provides a warning to passengers but the wording is not clear from the photograph. It can be assumed that it was a warning to passengers not to cross to the other platform over the rails. There was no barrow crossing and the official way of crossing over would have been for passengers to retrace their steps up to the road bridge and use the path on the other side.

According to Jim Hanley the white coloured hut was used as a ticket office for a couple of years. Presumably the number of passengers using the Halt did not warrant its continued use and the presence of the telephone pole might indicate it subsequently provided railway workers with a telephone link to adjacent signal boxes.

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