GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Bordesley Station: gwrbg1087a

Close up of image 'gwrbg1087' showing an ex-GWR 0-6-0PT Pannier tank marshalling a long coal train as it prepares to set back to Bordesley sidings. The signal arm to the fore of the photograph has a short arm with a ring as do the signals on the gantry behind the telegraph pole. Railway companies fitted rings in order to assist drivers in distinguishing signals where they were placed side by side on multiple track sections. Generally, the signal arms applying to goods lines or slow lines were fitted with rings, or where there were many lines, signals applying to alternate lines were fitted.

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