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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Moor Street Station: gwrms2761
View of the upper level goods facilities at Moor Street
taken in 1960 when demolition for the Inner Ring Road had removed the parade of
shops opposite. In the centre of the photograph fronting Moor Street is the
Main Goods Offices with the two curved-head windows of the Chief Clerks
office adjacent to the matching street entrance (see 'gwrms2745'). Behind this building is the truck hoist
to Shed A (underneath) and the High level Goods Shed, while a number of covered
wagons can also be seen in the yard.
The front elevation of the Goods Office was carefully
dismantled and retained when this area was redeveloped for the new Bull Ring
Shopping Centre, with the intention of re-erecting it as the entrance to the
new Moor Street Station platforms which had been built adjacent to the Snow
Hill tunnel exit on the through main line. This was not done however due to the
weight of the frontage directly which would have been directly above the New
Street tunnel and this front elevation remains in storage awaiting another
project.
Robert Ferris
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