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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Station: gwrms1706

View of Moor Street station and the high level goods shed with a suburban passenger train leaving the short bay platform No1

View of Moor Street station and the high level goods shed with a suburban passenger train leaving the short bay platform No1. The exterior of the four hundred foot long high level goods shed is complete and dwarfs the passenger station, but internally construction is still underway with building materials being stored there. The passenger station lines were numbered from left to right and had the following maximum capacity:
       Platform No.1 line Engine plus 56 wheels (i.e. 7 standard eight wheel bogie coaches)
       Platform No.2 line Engine plus 72 wheels (i.e. 9 standard eight wheel bogie coaches)
       Platform No.3 line Engine plus 80 wheels (i.e. 10 standard eight wheel bogie coaches)
       Loop Line Engine plus 90 wheels (i.e. 11 standard eight wheel bogie coaches)
As well as being the terminus of virtually all the frequent suburban passenger services along the North Warwickshire Line and some of those along the Birmingham Main Line. Moor Street Station often operated as the starting point for the many special excursion trains, which ran south from Birmingham to either London or the West Country.

In the foreground is the bracket supporting the Platform No.2 starting signal below which is its associated mechanically operated route indicator. This was operated from signal levers in Moor Street Signal Box with the semaphore signal and had multiple sliding diaphragms baring the route indications. These could be illuminated from a lamp behind when they were in the raised position. This particular route indicator had two sliding diaphragms labelled as follows:
       Up Relief - controlled by lever 6
       Up Goods - controlled by lever 21

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