GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Solihull Station: gwrs2621

An official Great Western Railway Photograph of the new relief line island platform and signal box on 2nd May 1934, completed as part of the quadrupling of the track between Olton and Lapworth. The new station was built slightly south of the original station site on a slight embankment. The wide island platforms had red brick buildings containing waiting, catering and toilet facilities for passengers, together with staff offices and storage space and were reached by a blue tile lined subway, while a semi-glazed umbrella canopy covered with Robertson's protected corrugated steel sheeting complete with a typical saw-tooth valanced edge covered the full platform width.

Robert Ferris

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