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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line
Bordesley Viaduct: gwrbg1716a
Close-up showing the work involved in extending the viaduct
from two to four sets of tracks. A temporary narrow gauge contractors
railway was installed to transport the required materials. In the foreground is
one of a pair of bitumen boilers. A thick layer of bitumen was applied to the
top of both the main and subsidiary brick arches to provide a waterproof
membrane. This was intended to prevent water from seeping down into the masonry
and causing damage to the structure. Snow Hill station was still being
reconstructed at this time and the temporary Moor Street Station had opened on
1st July 1909 to relieve traffic there. The lower bracket stop signal with the
route indicator controlled access from the down main line to the two station
platform roads and sidings at Moor Street.
Robert Ferris
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