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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Station: gwrms254a

Close up view of the terminus end of the platform showing three miscellaneous vehicles standing next to the traverser

Close up of image 'gwrms254' showing the terminus end of the platform with three miscellaneous vehicles standing next to the traverser. The limited space and the need to release locomotives to return to their originating station with the coaching that they brought in meant that the traverser was the only way of providing this facility. More commonly used in railway engineering workshops a traverser effectively moved the locomotive sideways so that it could run back on the parallel track.

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