Tile Hill Station
Tile Hill Station was opened in the 1860s although the
crossing had been constructed with the opening of the London to Birmingham
Railway. The station was a simple affair with a staggered platform
configuration either side of the level crossing with the booking office located
next to the gatekeepers house on the up platform. The goods yard was a single
line siding with a cattle dock at one end and a weighbridge to cater for
mineral goods traffic.
'Cam' Camwell noted in his book on the West Midlands 'that
trains in the early years of the line stopped at a number of locations
including Tile Hill for passengers to alight prior to a station being built.
This is not as impossible as it sounds as early railway carriages were modelled
on stage coaches and had steps down to near road level. It was only the advent
of longer coaching stock which required strong underframes and later bogies
which led to the increase in floor height of coaches we know today.
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