LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Stechford Station: lnwrstfd1598

Looking towards Coventry from the Birmingham end of the up platform showing the canopy to the down platform cut back on the right as seen on 25th May 1963. Both platforms appear to have had a brick structure built at the Birmingham end of the canopies. The amount of traffic using the slow platform presumably had reduced to the stage where when faced with repairing or renewing the slow platform canopy it was decided the most appropriate action was to cut it back. The line to the hump which was adjacent to the slow line was still in use up to the early 1960s. Within a few years this view would change significantly when the platform buildings, together with the main station building, would be swept away with both the hump road and the slow down line removed. The new station building was constructed on Frederick Road which was off Victoria Road. Access to the station was then via a stepped pathway which crossed the old formation to access the down platform.

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