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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line
Moor Street Station: gwrms1706
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View of Moor Street station and the high level goods shed
with a suburban passenger train leaving the short bay platform No1. The
exterior of the four hundred foot long high level goods shed is complete and
dwarfs the passenger station, but internally construction is still underway
with building materials being stored there. The passenger station lines were
numbered from left to right and had the following maximum
capacity: Platform No.1 line Engine
plus 56 wheels (i.e. 7 standard eight wheel bogie
coaches) Platform No.2 line Engine plus
72 wheels (i.e. 9 standard eight wheel bogie
coaches) Platform No.3 line Engine plus
80 wheels (i.e. 10 standard eight wheel bogie
coaches) Loop Line Engine plus 90
wheels (i.e. 11 standard eight wheel bogie coaches) As well as being the
terminus of virtually all the frequent suburban passenger services along the
North Warwickshire Line and some of those along the Birmingham Main Line. Moor
Street Station often operated as the starting point for the many special
excursion trains, which ran south from Birmingham to either London or the West
Country.
In the foreground is the bracket supporting the Platform
No.2 starting signal below which is its associated mechanically operated route
indicator. This was operated from signal levers in Moor Street Signal Box with
the semaphore signal and had multiple sliding diaphragms baring the route
indications. These could be illuminated from a lamp behind when they were in
the raised position. This particular route indicator had two sliding diaphragms
labelled as follows: Up Relief -
controlled by lever 6 Up Goods -
controlled by lever 21
RobertFerris
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