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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag1073
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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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