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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Birmingham -
Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to
Harborne
Monument Lane Station: lnwrml2229
A 1929 view of the 'Dutch' barn erected in Donald Powell's newly
opened timber yard located in Cope Street with Monument Lane carriage shed on
the left out of the picture. The barn was used for storage whilst the timber
yard could also boast that it had two main timber sheds and a machine shop/saw
mill. The timber merchants siding was accessed via the approach sidings to the
carriage shed and could officially only accommodate twelve wagons. A
consignment of twelve wagons would take the yard's nine 'stackers' upto four
days to unload. Failure to unload the wagons within the four day period would
initiate penalty charges, known as demurage. Wagons were brought into
the yard by one of the early morning Wolverhampton to Monument Lane pick-up
goods.
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