GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Select a station or subheading to view associated images. Numbers in [brackets] specify the number of photos on each page.

Route commences at Banbury

		Fenny Compton Station [32]
		Greaves Siding for Harbury Cement Works[8]
		Southam Road & Harbury Station [27]
		Harbury Cutting & Tunnel [26]
		Leamington:
		Station [372]
		Shed [66]
		Leamington South Junction [28]
		Leamington Priors Gas Company [3]
		Avon Bridge Power Station [15]
		Warwick
		Station [128]
		Budbrook and Warwick Cold Store [10]
		Hatton Bank [57]
		Hatton Station [76]
		Rowington Troughs [41]
		Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway Company [16]
		Rowington Junction[14]
		Henley-in-Arden (BHRC) Terminus Station [41]
		Henley-in-Arden (BHRC) Shed [6]
		Lapworth Station [80]
		Knowle & Dorridge Station [68]
		Bentley Heath Crossing [25]
		Widney Manor Station [59]
		Solihull Station [70]
		Olton Station [48]
		Acocks Green Station [64]
		Tyseley
		Junction [25]
		Station [63]
		Shed [140]
		Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) and Singer Motors [8]
		Small Heath Station [46]
		Bordesley
		Bordesley Station [58]
		Bordesley Viaduct [9]
		Duddeston Viaduct [9]
		Shed [20]
		Bordesley Junction - Exchange Branch [17]
		Moor Street Station [101]
		Birmingham Snow Hill Station [449]
		Hockley
		Station [28]
		Goods Depot [137]
		Soho & Winson Green Station [29]
		Queens Head Sidings [44]
		Handsworth and Smethwick Station [34]
		Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Ltd [15]
		Handsworth Junction & The Hawthorns Halt [16]
		West Bromwich Station (Staffordshire)
		Swan Village Station (Staffordshire)
		Wednesbury Central Station (Staffordshire)
		Bradley Station (Staffordshire)
		Bilston Central Station (Staffordshire)
		Priestfield Station (Staffordshire)
		Wolverhampton Low Level Station (Staffordshire)

Through the Window - Paddington to Birkenhead

Beginnings The Great Western Railway was originally founded to provide a route from Bristol to London, using broad gauge track as developed by its chief engineer I. K. Brunel. It wasn't long before its sights turned northwards due to the success of its standard gauge rivals, the Grand Junction Railway, and the London & Birmingham Railway. To this end it actively encouraged any broad gauge railway company that had set its sights on alternative routes to the midlands and the north. One such company was the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway, and the GWR agreed to provide three and a half percent of its capital.

The Great Western commissioned many publications to promote interest in the countryside through which their railway ran. The Through the Window series was aimed at engaging the passenger with the delights of the villages, towns and cities which they could see from their carriage window. The images below show part of the GWR route from Paddington to Birkenhead.