LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Bournville: mrb1a
This close up of image 'mrb1' shows the line of loco coal
wagons standing on the embankment at the end of the coaling shed's siding
viewed from the back of the depot. As can seen above seven fully loaded wagons
would be shunted in place on a raised embankment sufficiently high enough so
that the coal can be off-loaded into the locomotive's tender or bunker. Each
wagon would in turn be moved by manpower into the coaling area where it would
emptied and then stored on the far side of the coaling shed until replaced by
the next train of loco coal wagons.
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