GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd750

View of the new Top shed's cartage area and the canopy erected over No 1 platform to provide protection from inclement weather circa 1940. Whilst principally used for access to the shed by road vehicles, a mixture of motor lorries and horse-drawn wagons, there was also a railway line laid alongside the deck. The hut in the foreground, once the building contractors foreman's office, is now used by the GWR as a gateman's lodge. The Lorry standing adjacent to the brick building is being weighed on the north entrance weighbridge.

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