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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Hockley Station: gwrhd691c
Close up of image 'gwrhd691' showing a formal garden and
that not all parts of Hockley depot was given over to the goods traffic. Its
not known why this section of the yard was laid out with iron railings, paved
paths, gravel or lawn (probably the former) and a flower bed with whitened
stones. The most obvious reason would have been if the area had been set aside
as a war memorial. The railway companies named locomotives after fallen
employees, both collectively and individually. However this photograph was
alleged to have been taken in 1914 the year the First World War, or Great War
as it was known until 1939, broke out. A simple answer might be that the given
date of the photograph is incorrect and that it should post 1918. However, the
iron railings are shaped to run parallel to one of the access roads and
encompasses at least on set of tracks.
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