GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1736

The steel girders which supported the new main booking hall floor have been installed above the track behind the Great Western Hotel. At this point the railway tracks converge to a single pair, which descended through Snow Hill tunnel underneath the hotel. At this time the hotel was being used as offices for Great Western Railway staff. On the right is the second Birmingham South Signal Box, which was installed in 1911 as a temporary measure, being moved in 1913 to Ely Paper Mills Crossing in South Wales following its replacement with the Siemens power box. This temporary Signal Box was a standard GW28a type design of wooden construction, twenty-five foot long by ten feet wide, with plain gable ends and no roof finals. Internally it had a conventional three bar vertical tappet frame with thirty-six levers at four inch centres.

Robert Ferris

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