LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Barnt Green: mrbg615b

This close up of image 'mrbg615' shows the Redditch down platform waiting room which was built after 1894 when the Redditch branch was doubled for the first 350 yards and the down platform erected. To the left is the passenger footbridge and next to it an unknown timber framed structure. Its location, ornate frontage and the window on the side would suggest that it might have been some kind of passenger facility. This begs the question was the timber structure built at the time of the erection of the platform with the brick built structure being built a little later? The existence of both structures is confirmed in another early twentieth century view in image 'mrbg622'. The lampposts seen in the photograph are gas lit.

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