GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh762

View of the entrance to Hockley No 1 tunnel looking in the direction of Wolverhampton with Hockley No 2 tunnel seen through its bore in June 1960. The railway North out of Snow Hill to Wolverhampton was made up of quadrupled track which quickly passed under Livery Street and Northwood Street in the form of a short tunnel 136 yards (125 metres) long to briefly reemerge before it then entered Hockley No 2 tunnel. Unlike the tunnel at the between Moor Street and Snow Hill neither of Hockley's tunnels represented too much of a challenge with a heavy train or discomfort for the crews from excessive smoke and fumes.

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