LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Harborne Station: lnwrh1525

A line of British Railways 16-ton steel mineral wagons, some loaded and others unloaded, stand alongside the Weigh Bridge Office in August 1961. To the right of the office can be seen a number of wharfs provided for the local merchants. There was an incentive to merchants to empty the wagons as after three days of standing in the yard a fee was charged for each further day. Coal traffic was the primary traffic at most stations in the country after the Second World War and Harborne was no exception. The combined influence of competition from road traffic and the Clean Air Act meant that this traffic too was to rapidly diminish.

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