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Kingsbury Station: mrk1819

Kingsbury station's ramshackled up platform when viewed looking south towards Whitacre Junction in 1956

Kingsbury station's ramshackled up platform when viewed looking south towards Whitacre Junction in 1956. On the right is a parcels shed created from a former coach with its windows now boarded up for security. Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith state in their book 'Birmingham to Tamworth & Nuneaton that the population grew from 2,747 in 1901 to 6,358 in 1961. Despite this increase being generated by the availability of commuter services to New Street it doesn't appear to have been enough for the Midland Railway, and its successors, to have invested in the facilities of the station beyond that provided by the Birmingham & Derby Joint Railway in 1839.

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