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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Handsworth & Smethwick: gwrhs2648
Looking south towards Birmingham from the footbridge above
the main lines. On the left is the original up main platform, while the island
platform on the right was built when the line between Handsworth Junction and
Birmingham Snow Hill was quadrupled in 1909. Under the canopy on the island
platform there were two platform buildings containing passenger facilities; the
nearest being the general waiting room, and the second containing the ladies
waiting room and toilet plus the gentlemen's lavatories. At the end of the
platform ramps is the bridge over Booth Street and beyond this Handsworth South
Signal Box and Queens Head Sidings. The long ladder crossing from the Goods
Yard on the down side of the station to the up marshalling sidings can be seen
in the distance.
Robert Ferris
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