GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Bordesley Station: gwrbg3996

This Great Western Railway Land Survey Plan from 1878 shows the land purchased by the Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway with the development up to that date marked in blue. Those areas marked in red are the subsequent land purchases and disposals associated with the development of the site and necessary for the later quadrupling of the main line. The developments included on this plan are:

• The Bordesley Locomotive Depot. Note the 1855 Broad Gauge Engine Shed (centre) became the Carriage Shed after a larger Engine Shed was constructed (far right)
• Junction with the Midland Railway (top left) with three Reception Roads for the exchange traffic
• Development of the Marshalling Yard sidings (across the top of the plan). These were the Baltic and Baulk sidings, which were used for assembling freight trains for various destinations
• Small Heath Goods Yard (bottom right) adjacent to the Warwick & Birmingham Canal (see also gwrsh3995)

After the quadrupling new Land Survey Plans were drawn.

Robert Ferris