LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Canley Halt: lnwrchg545

The original London and Birmingham Railway gatekeepers house located next to Canley Road gates crossing. The L&BR structure was originally built for the signalmen who guarded the crossing and it was only when Canley Gates became Canley Halt in 1940 that the house became used for the station master. Canley Halt station was built 102 years after the line opened to provide transport facilities to the recently built factory operated by the Standard Motor Company as part of the war effort. This state of affairs was however short lived because by the time this photograph was taken on 3rd September 1961, the building had been abandoned and was in a poor state of repair.

Photographer John Hyde © Steam Archive

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