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Kingsbury Branch Sidings: mrk1118

View of Kingsbury Branch Sidings Signal Box seen on 9th August 1969 shortly before its closure

View of Kingsbury Branch Sidings Signal Box seen on 9th August 1969 shortly before its closure. The sidings were opened on 28th February 1878 to serve both Baddesley and Birch Coppice Collieries and at a later date, Cohen's scrapyard too. It is interesting to note the position of this MR branch in relation to the same company's branch from Stockingford (on the Nuneaton - Birmingham line) to Ansley Hall Colliery. With the termini being less than two miles apart and at similarly high levels, it was no doubt the intention to link the two and form a through route. The fact that the Ansley Hall branch terminates in the middle of a field with a trailing connection into the colliery yard - the colliery itself having been passed about half a mile back - lends weight to this supposition.

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