GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Bordesley Station: gwrbg2267a

Close up of image 'gwrbg2267' showing the new warehouse showing a water column (complete with fire devil) and the signals controlling access from the new sidings. The white rings on the semaphore signal arms denote that these signals control goods lines or sidings and were used where semaphore signals were installed in preference to ground disc signals.

The following brief description appeared in the Railway Gazette supplement (December 1933) which detailed the works carried out on Great Western Railway under the Development (Loans Guarantees and Grants) Act, 1929: Adjoining Bordesley Station, one mile south of the Great Western Snow Hill passenger station at Birmingham, a new warehouse of reinforced concrete frame and brick panelling has been erected. Ay ground level the building is 295 feet long and there are four floors above, each 190 feet long and varying in width from 67 feet to 85 feet. Office accommodation is provided for the staff. Inside the shed a siding for 15 wagons has been laid alongside the platform, which is equipped with a 30 cwt capacity runway. Two 30 cwt electric lifts and four 1 ton jigger hoists provide communication from the platform to all floors. The building is electrically lighted and the yard floodlighted. In the goods yard additional siding accommodation for 60 wagons has been arranged.

Robert Ferris

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