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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Small Heath and Sparkbrook Station: gwrsh4001
Following the fatal accident to track-relayer Mr F McGarry
on 20th August 1946 the Great Western Railway prepared a drawing to show where
the accident occurred. The drawing (No.10718) used the Companys current
Land Survey Plan as the background. This plan shows the track arrangement
between Small Heath Station and Tyseley Locomotive Depot. Adjacent properties
such as the main Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) Factory feature prominently. On
the other side of the track is Small Heath South Signal Box and behind this the
junction constructed to connect to a private branch line to the BSA Sparkbrook
Works and Singer Factory. This connection was requested by the Government
during the First World War and a note records that a parcel of land adjacent to
the junction was sold to the Secretary of State for War on 12th October 1917.
Material shortages meant the connection was only completed in 1919, after the
war had ended.
Robert Ferris
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