GWR Route: Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway Company

Lapworth to Henley in Arden Branch Line: gwrha2820

The site of Henley in Arden's North Warwickshire station looking in the direction of Birmingham circa 1906. The rake of contractor's wagons are standing on what would become the down main with evidence on their left of some brickwork being erected to form the face of platform 2. All of the visible trackwork is the contractor's 'temporary' railway formed using flat bottom rail spiked to roughly hewn timber (as portrayed by television and film when showing American Railways being built in the 1800s). The term 'Permanent Way' used by railways was to differentiate between the contractor's track and the track laid to form the railways.

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