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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Bordesley Station: gwrbg2716
View of Bordesley Station looking south towards Tyseley
taken on 18th July 1963 from the edge of platform 3 which served the up relief
line. There were two island platforms at Bordesley. The main line island
platform on the left of this photograph had platforms 1 and 2, which faced the
up main and down main lines respectively, while on the right is the relief line
island platform with platforms 3 and 4, which faced the up relief and down
relief lines respectively. Trains using Moor Street operated on the relief
lines, while those travelling through the Snow Hill tunnel normally operated on
the main lines.
The platforms at Bordesley are slightly staggered. The main
island platform straddled the Coventry Road and had a lattice girder bridge
carrying the main lines over Sandy Lane and the Grand Union Canal at the
southern end, while the relief island platform straddled Sandy Lane and has a
76 foot long plate girder bridge carrying the relief lines over the Coventry
Road. This peculiarity resulted from staged construction when the line was
quadrupled and station relocated. The relief island platform being opened in
March 1915, several years before the other island platform.
Robert Ferris
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