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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Warwick Station: gwrw400
Looking towards Birmingham from the up platform towards the
down platform with the headshunt of the landing dock on the left. The sidings
to the landing dock can be seen in image 'gwrw379a'
and allowed the vans to be stored before being they were moved into one of two
landing docks, the one above allowing the unloading of horseboxes or vans from
side doors and the other, which is not recorded in any photograph but can be
seen in the 1925 map, which accommodated both side
and end-on access. The provision of an end-on access was to facilitate the
loading or unloading of horse drawn road vehicles in the 19th century.
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