GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd691c

Close up of image 'gwrhd691' showing a formal garden and that not all parts of Hockley depot was given over to the goods traffic. Its not known why this section of the yard was laid out with iron railings, paved paths, gravel or lawn (probably the former) and a flower bed with whitened stones. The most obvious reason would have been if the area had been set aside as a war memorial. The railway companies named locomotives after fallen employees, both collectively and individually. However this photograph was alleged to have been taken in 1914 the year the First World War, or Great War as it was known until 1939, broke out. A simple answer might be that the given date of the photograph is incorrect and that it should post 1918. However, the iron railings are shaped to run parallel to one of the access roads and encompasses at least on set of tracks.

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