LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Adderley Park Station: lnwr_add2862

An Ordnance Survey map showing the late 1960s layout of Adderley Park station after modification to trackwork. The signal cabin has now been replaced by New Street Power Box. Whereas previously trains accessing the loopline from the Coventry direction had to pass over the points leading in to the sidings before reversing back on to the up line and then drawing forward onto the loopline, the now can just be diverted straight on to the line. According to Preston Hendry and Powell Hendry in their book LMS Stations Volume One this change was possible because of the modern preference to replace slips with single leads and facing points. This was because of the advent of modern technology which ensured such facing points were locked securely when being used by high speed trains.

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