LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Lawley Street Goods Depot: mrls936

View of one of Lawley Street Goods station's many Midland Railway signals updated by the LMS. In this instance the LMS have replaced the Midland arm with a miniature arm. Small signal arms were frequently used in locations adjacent or near to main lines in order not to confuse drivers with signals controlling sidings with signals controlling the main line. Thewagon seen below the signal appears to be a British Railway's Conflat L, designed to carry containers such as that shown in the photograph. 'Conflat' is the telegraphic code within the Great Western Railway's coding of railway wagons for a container wagon. Unlike normal wagon loads, containers were only listed to carry furniture or goods (unless they were refrigerated containers, which carried frozen products kept cold by ice) which needed to be placed on a specialist flatbed wagon which had train braking capability due to the fragile nature of the products carried. The wagons were removed from service (as were the containers themselves) when more modern containers came into use.

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