GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd3191

Looking across to the All Saints' Road entrance to Hockley's goods yard facilities sited on the up side of the station. To the right of the lamppost is a motorised mobile crane. The close up of the 1913 Ordnance Survey map shows a weighing machine had been installed adjacent to the gate by this date. This area was primarily undeveloped with the close up of the 1888 Ordnance Survey map showing only a single or possibly two sidings inside a fenced area serviced by a travelling crane. By the turn of the century, as shown by the close up of the 1902 Ordnance Survey map, the area had been fully developed with a single siding accessing the Cattle Pens built on the boundary wall with All Saints' Road, plus ten additional sidings laid out across the site. The map does not reference a travelling crane but both the 1888 and 1913 Ordnance Survey maps do so it would be highly probably one did exist, just omitted in error.

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