GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Bordesley Station: gwrbg3998

This Great Western Railway Land Survey Plan of Bordesley Station dates from 1878. The plan shows the land purchased by the Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway to construct this railway. These purchases are marked in blue, together with any further additions or disposals that took place up to 1878. Those areas marked in red are the subsequent land purchases and disposals associated with the later development of the site and includes the land purchases necessary for the later quadrupling of the main line. The plan shows the original station layout with its entrance from the High Street. The covered Goods Shed and Cattle Pens adjacent to a retaining wall above Upper Trinity Street can also be seen. On the left is the junction for the track laid on the unused Duddeston Viaduct to Curzon Street Station and also the start of the original double track arrangement over the Bordesley Viaduct to Birmingham City Centre (prior to this viaduct being widened). On the right are the bridges over the Warwick & Birmingham Canal and Sandy Lane. The original mileage from Paddington Station is given in black figures, but revised mileage in red figures are thought to indicate the slightly increased mileage following the relocation of the London Terminus.

Robert Ferris