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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag16b

Close up showing the GWR local passenger service leaving the station for Birmingham and a Permanent Way gang working on the track

Close up of image 'gwrag16' showing a GWR local passenger service leaving the station for Birmingham and a Permanent Way gang working on the track. The extra width between the two running lines - known as the six foot - is actually wider in this view because when first built the route was built as a mixed gauge line combining both 4'-8½" and 7'-0¼" tracks. The latter track carried Broad Gauge trains but these were gradually removed from the British railway scene because of the operating difficulties when both goods and passengers had to continue their journeys in Standard Gauge territory. The removal of the Broad Gauge track resulted in a wider space between the running lines as seen above. The quadrupling of the line in the 1930s removed all traces of the mixed gauge formation.

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