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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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Birmingham New Street - Southern Approaches:
lnwrbhm_sa2320
Looking towards Coventry with the Grand Junction signal cabin in
the centre of the photograph on 10th May 1960. This view is from a train
travelling over Vauxhall Viaduct as seen in image 'lnwrbhm_sa2314b'. The signal cabin is located
between the two sets of lines for Coventry and Euston on the left and Tamworth
and Derby on the right, the latter passing under the mainline to London and
then sweeping left to continue on to Saltley. With Derby being the headquarters
of the Midland Railway its directors naturally viewed Derby as being the centre
of the universe and adopted the practice of classifying lines heading towards
Derby as being the up line. This is why on occasion there can be an apparent
confusion when describing the direction of travel between the lines of the LNWR
and MR.
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