LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington Spa (Avenue)

Birdingbury Station: lnwrbird1333b

Close up of image 'lnwrbird1333' showing Birdingbury station's goods yard with the signal box on the right immediately at the end of the down platform. As will be seen by looking at the 'drawing' of the layout of the yard in 1894, there were two sidings but no goods shed. One was parallel with the running line and had a head shunt at the Rugby end of the siding and a short siding this side of the double slip pointwork where the van can be seen standing. - see the buffers in the distance - and this side of the double slip. The other siding ran at angle to the runnibg line and would have been used by local merchants for inward traffic of coal and building materials and agricultural produce for outward traffic. Behind the lower quadrant signal can be seen two buildings. The larger of the two with apex roof was the weigh bridge office whilst the smaller building was a Permanent Way hut.

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