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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Berkswell and Balsall Common: lnwrberk1313
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Looking towards Birmingham showing Berkswell with its original
staggered platform configuration with the up platform opposite the signal box.
John Boynton in his book 'The London & Birmingham Railway between
Birmingham and Coventry' reports that a retrospective article in the Coventry
Evening Telegraph (18th September 1934) stated that in the early years of the
London & Birmingham Railway's history the station, as with others on the
line, might have had an unofficial status. Marston Green and Stetchford Gates
together with Dockers Lane, as Berkswell was then known, initially had no
wayside stations. "Passengers entered and alighted at their own convenience,
without considering the danger from passing trains. There was much
indifference, people jumping on and off at ease". Whilst early trains travelled
at low speeds and slowed when approaching crossings and people's attitude to
life was very different this practice was perhaps a little 'hairy' by today's
standards.
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