LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Water Orton Station: mrwo1045

Water Orton station looking towards Birmingham with the main passenger building seen on the left. The staggered platforms are linked by the porter's barrow crossing. Careful observation shows a signal box is partly visible through the first arch of the road bridge and signals on a gantry on the other side of the middle arch. The signs hanging on both sides of the footbridge states 'Passengers must cross lines by the bridge'. The room beneath the footbridge would be used as a store, possibly the lamp room, for materials required to run the station. A lamp room would hold spare lamps, lenses, oil, wicks and other related paraphernalia and charged to either a junior porter if the lamps were for use within the station or by a lampman if required for the signals along a stretch of railway. Read John Griffiths account on performing such duties albeit in the 1960s in his article 'here'.

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