LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Lawley Street Goods Depot: mrls303

View looking towards Saltley showing the new freightliner terminal in the foreground on 6th November 1969. The growth of container traffic helped to secure freight traffic for the railways but its requirement for specialist overhead craneage meant that it would never help local stations to survive. Container freight traffic together with Merry Go Round coal trains would be the only areas within which railways could compete with road transport on an equal basis in the future.

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