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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1663

Virtually all the parcel traffic carried to Birmingham on the Great Western Railway passed through the parcel's yard under Snow Hill

Virtually all the parcel traffic carried to Birmingham on the Great Western Railway passed through the parcel's yard under Snow Hill Station before being transhipped for final distributed on the company's fleet of road vehicles. On the left behind the trunks and cases is one of the early mechanical cartage vehicles, which appears to be a Sidney Straker & Squire Ltd 15 cwt Van. The Great Western Railway purchased several of their chassis in 1909, with a 2 cylinder 14 h.p. vertical engine, and Swindon works manufactured the bodywork. This photograph shows the completed girder work above the parcels yard, which supported the track and platforms of Snow Hill Station. On the right the girders carried the up relief goods and sidings trackwork, while on the left the higher girders supported platforms 10 and 12.

Robert Ferris

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