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View showing three significant remnants of the original 1838 London and Birmingham Railway, the station, the engine shed and the water column on 10th April 1953. The date 1838, is cast in to the base of the water column. The engine shed whilst replaced by the larger LNWR unit next to Quinton Road was later briefly used by the Midland Railway when they started to run their goods service in to Coventry during the middle 1850s. In later years it was just used to raise water from the well inside, an activity it undertook from 1838 until the rebuilding of the station in 1959. The rear of the station building, now used to provide accommodation for the station's Inspector and Station Master, can be seen including the lean-to section. The up goods train is made up of both wooden and steel bodied open wagons. The signal is a lower quadrant signal because, as can be seen, the spectacle plate which will show red or white will be raised into a position whereby the lamp will shine through the clear glass. The signal arm will correspondingly be in the 'lower quadrant' of its movement. The tail end of one of the numerous mineral trains passes opposite the old L & B water column and the 'fire devil' used to prevent freezing during the winter months.
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