LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Tile Hill Station: lnwrth2396

View of Tile Hill station's down platform and passenger waiting room as seen on 22nd September 1951. The pole standing adjacent to the waiting room was used to provide a wire stay for the very tall signal post positioned next to the signal cabin as (seen in image 'lnwrth716'). The pole needed to be tall so that trains could pass beneath the wire. Just visible on the left is the storage depot erected by the government during the Second World War. The station was lit by oil lamps up to the 1960s when it was modernised.

An original photograph by Gordon Biddle

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