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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line
Moor Street Station: gwrms1697
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One of the two traverser tables at the north end of the 700
foot long single island platform at Moor Street Station in 1910. In this
photograph the traverser table is fully exposed with all three rail roads
visible. When moving a locomotive the left hand rail road of the traverser
table could travel into a recess under the platform. At this time the Moor
Street passenger station facilities were limited and it was not until 1915 that
the permanent station buildings containing; booking office, waiting rooms,
toilets, etc. were finally constructed. The temporary arrangement was necessary
to cater for North Warwickshire Line suburban passenger traffic during the
reconstruction of Snow Hill Station. In later years an additional platform
would be constructed to create a two track bay arrangement with one of the
traversers at the end and it would only be possible to see two of these rail
roads. The traverser table was sixty feet long by thirty two feet, ten inches
wide with an electric motor underneath near the centre. This motor was
controlled by a lever located between the pair of stop-blocks at the end of the
tracks and this was interlocked from the Signal Box. A ground disc signal (just
visible in the left foreground) indicated when the traverser table was
correctly positioned.
Robert Ferris
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