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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Kingsbury Station: mrk1819b

Close up showing the door from the booking office and porter's room to the up platform

Close up of image 'mrk1819' showing the door from the booking office and porter's room to the up platform. The diagonal slatted fence on the right is standard Midland Railway practice, a distinctive and expensive feature not seen on other railways. It is constructed using pitch pine and, according to railwaymen at other locations, was painted with a mixture of tar and lamp oil. The dimensions of the fence are (in inches): Diagonals 3" x ¾" x 72" spaced 4½" apart. Horizontals 4" x 1½" spaced 8" above ground level then spaced 17" apart with posts 6" x 4" to a height of 66" pitched somewhat randomly approximately every 120".

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