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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag3989
Great Western Railway Land Survey Plan from 1878 showing the
land purchased by the Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway to build Acocks
Green Station. The plan shows the original station layout. There was no
footbridge across the track, but the main station building on the down side
could be reached by lanes from both Sherbourne Road and Roberts Road. There
were footpaths from Yardley Road and Roberts Road to either end of the up
platform.
Various additions are marked on the plan in red/hatched
red, including:
- The trailing crossover and signal box (at the end of
the up platform), which were installed circa May 1879. - Extensions to both
platforms and the addition of two long refuge sidings, which were brought into
use circa June 1892. Note the catch points are marked on the plan. -
Purchase in 1901 of additional land to allow the line to be quadrupled. The
trailing crossover, Signal Box and switch (points) for the up refuge siding
commencing at the bridge can be seen on 'gwrag16'.
Robert Ferris
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