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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag16b
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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