LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street

Washwood Heath Sidings: mrwhg631

Another view of Washwood Heath Sidings No 5 Signal Box with the 'Running Road to Dug Out' sidings immediately behind the signal box. Immediately behind this road can be seen a small wall with a handrail on top which separated the sidings from the main Birmingham to Derby four-track line. Bob Essery states, 'it appears that at first there was a ground frame at the point where the reception lines came together before the wagons were pushed over the hump and then into the various marshalling sidings. A signal box known as Washwood Heath Up Sidings replaced this ground frame and there also references (in Gough's The Midland Railway - A Chronology) to a north and south signal box'. Bob further writes, 'I believe that, No 5 and No 6 signal boxes replaced the two earlier ground frames' but Bob has yet to be able to confirm this.

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