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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Leamington Spa Station: gwrls2092
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Looking towards London showing both bay platforms at the
Birmingham end of the station on 22nd March 1937. The photograph amply shows
that the platform level of the original station was much lower than that seen
on the extended platform on the right. This was because the design of early
passenger coaches was based up on the design of stage coaches in the 1830s.
Passengers accessed such road vehicles by climbing upwards and into or onto the
carriage. The development of the railway passenger coach over the next 50 years
resulted in much longer vehicles being required. Such vehicles needed
substantial underframes to carry the weight and bogies to negotiate tight
curves. These design changes resulted in the internal floor height of the coach
being raised which in turn requiried platforms to be raised significantly. The
rebuilding of the station had commenced with the erection of new canopies to
the Birmingham end of the down platform. To its right are coaches forming a
local passenger services to Stratford upon Avon. On the left is a local
passenger service ready to depart for Snow Hill or Moor Street.
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