GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Soho and Winson Green: gwrswg1562

View of the main line station at Soho & Winson Green looking towards Wolverhampton in March 1966. The lines on the left are the relief lines, while those on the right are the main lines. The station buildings date from 1912 when the station was remodelled and lines quadrupled. The Great Western Railway standard station features of this period are the red pressed brick structures with Staffordshire blue brick plinths and concrete lintels. The wide awing canopy, punctuated with substantial brick chimneys and supported on channel steel columns and steel lattice girders, stretching to the rail edge and partially glazed.

The remainder was covered in a composite material of corrugated steel covered in bitumen and asbestos. The gabled ends had vertical timber across their triangular facade, which continued into the plain saw-tooth valance and this timber valance surrounded each side of the canopy. Several full harp gas lamps provided the lighting along the exposed section of the platform. The stone bordered raised flower beds date from a later period and with a little attention would once have provided an attractive splash of colour to the station.

Robert Ferris

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