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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd691a

Close up showing the unidentified Great Western Railway's 0-6-0ST marshalling trains in the yard

Close up of image 'gwrhd691' showing the unidentified Great Western Railway's 0-6-0ST marshalling trains in the yard. This part of the yard was known as the 'Farm' for most of the yard's existence despite the fact that this description alluded to the yard's very beginning when the area was still very rural and local farming traffic was being accommodated. Kenneth Harrison who started to work as a clerk at the yard in 1939 recalls that the yard recorded traffic passing through the shed in a book still described on a white label as the Farm Book. The two yard huts are in the same location as seen in other views but the shed are different and smaller. Note too the sleepers in the foreground which appear to be second hand but still in good enough condition to be reused in areas of the yard where the speed of travel was not an issue.

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