LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington Spa (Avenue)

Birdingbury Station: lnwrbird1333b

This close up of image 'lnwrbird1333' shows the goods yard located immediately to the north of the station. According to the scale drawing in 'LMS Stations' the yard in 1894 consisted of a head shunt on a parallel line - see the buffers in the distance - and this side of the double slip, where the van is standing, was a weigh bridge. The double slip also provided access to a short siding which was at an oblique angle to the running line leading to a landing stage which would have been just out of sight on the extreme left of the photograph.

As stated elsewhere the signal box was only used when the yard was in action requiring station staff to operate the signals from lever frames. The rodding ran under a timber protective culvert which can be seen crossing the tracks at the bottom of the photograph. The barrow crossing used by passengers and staff alike can be seen at the end of the platform.

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