GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt334

Robert Ferris writes, 'This photograph of 4999 shows a shed in the background with a wooden gable end and walls, but Tyseley was brick built. Unfortunately I do not think this matches any of the other GWR sheds in Warwickshire either.' The original caption is seen below derived from the information on the back of the photograph. CAN YOU HELP?

Simon Dewey writes, 'is surely at Stafford Road, Wolverhampton. The shed building is the straight road shed that had been the Tender Shop of a previous arrangement of Stafford Road Works and before that, I believe, the GWR's original Broad Gauge engine shed on the site. For confirmation refer to the photo creditted to R W Miller of a view of the shed yard in 1883 (included in "Wolverhampton Railway Album Volume 1" by Simon Dewey and Ned Williams and probably elsewhere). In its latter days the building was clad and roofed in corrugated iron with the smoke chimneys omitted and smoke vents formed to the ridge of the roof instead, presumably with the original structural frame retained. It would be interesting to know when, obviously post 1931 when 4999 was built, the original external envelope was removed and refromed, as well as seeing photos of the building following its recladding but before it became the dilapidated form probably remembered (fondly) by most of us'.

GWR 4-6-0 Hall class No 4999 'Gopsal Hall' is seen in steam standing on one of the roads that ran alongside an unknown shed in Aug 1932. Built by Swindon works to Lot 268 in March 1931 No 4999 remained in service until September 1962 when it was withdrawn from St. Philips Marsh shed in Bristol to be scrapped during September 1963 by J Cashmore of Newport.

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