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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag1073

Looking towards Leamington as a local passenger train passes under the footbridge as it arrives at the down main platform

Looking towards Leamington with a local passenger train passing under the footbridge as it arrives at the down main platform. This photograph was taken sometime during the six years after January 1907, when Acocks Green station had been rebuilt with two island platforms and the section of track between Olton and Tyseley was quadrupled. During this time the line was operated ‘paired by direction’ with the two outer lines effectively being loops for slow trains. Only in June 1913 when the quadrupled section had been extended to Small Heath North was the arrangement re-ordered to ‘paired by use’ with a Main and Relief lines. This rearrangement meant that trains from Birmingham for the North Warwickshire Line could use the up relief line and no longer needed to cross both the up and down main lines at Tyseley Junction. To the right of the platform can be seen the embankment which denoted the boundary of the station. Sherbourne Nursery was to the left of this embankment opposite the footbridge.

Robert Ferris

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