GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Southam Road and Harbury: gwrsrh281a

This close up of image "gwrsrh281" shows an up goods waiting in the refuge siding for the 'Right Away' after the fast milk train has passed. The growth of traffic on the Birmingham - Oxford route compelled the GWR to quadruple the route in the Birmingham area but costs were too heavy to apply this solution to the remaining route. The solution was to construct refuge sidings at intervals along the route where slow traffic could be shunted until paths in the traffic allowed the train to move further down the line.

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