GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd689

Looking to Soho from the Birmingham end of the island platform with All Saints Street bridge crossing the railway. This view was taken after the introduction of DMUs on the line as is evident by the white sign with the No "6" on it. This indicated to the driver of a six-car unit to stop at this point along the platform. According to Frank Popplewell in his series of articles in the GWR Journal on Hockley the transfer traffic from the goods line on the left to the Round yard on the right required a tank engine to haul a rake of wagons northwards along the lengthy shunting spur, which ran almost to Soho, before propelling them across the main running lines into Round yard.

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