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Bordesley Station
Bordesley station was opened in 1855 on the GWR Birmingham
to Oxford line between Snow Hill and Acocks Green as Small Heath and Tyseley
were not opened until some time later. Bordesley station was unusual because it
was built entirely on a viaduct. Initially the station was a conventional two
platform station with a large goods shed and sidings. As part of the extensive
upgrade to the route in to Birmingham, which saw the construction of Moor
Street to handle local passenger services, Bordesley station was upgraded to a
two-island platform facility, with one island handling local passenger services
to and from Moor Street and the other handling traffic to and from Snow
Hill.
The station provided significant cattle facilities adjacent
to and on Duddeston Viaduct, the long abandoned aborted link to the London
& Birmingham Railway's Curzon Street station. Between Small Heath and
Bordesley was a significant goods yard facility. Whilst in the 1930s eleven or
twelve staff were employed at the station the loss of traffic in the 1960s saw
the station downgraded to provide a minimal level of passenger services mainly
concentrated on providing football fans access to Birmingham City's St Andrews
football ground.
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