GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Station: gwrt1345

Looking towards Snow Hill from the Birmingham end of the main up platform with Tyseley Goods Shed visible on the right. At this end the original brick built shed was one hundred feet long with two 30 cwt hand cranes on a wooden decked platform inside. The attached small brick building was the original Goods Office until a larger replacement was constructed in 1923.

By 1930 the goods traffic dealt with at Tyseley was sufficient to justify extending the Goods Shed and the new one hundred and forty foot long corrugated steel extension was built abutting the original shed. Bob Pixton in his book 'Oxford to Birmingham - Portrait of a Famous Route' states that even in the early 1960s the lettering on the corrugated steel wall panels (which was painted out as wartime security measure) was still evident. Bob writes that the lettering displayed was 'GWR goods shed. Express goods train services one day transit between important towns'.

The small hut between the Up Main line and Goods sidings was for the Permanent Way staff, while in the background is the six hundred foot long Carriage Shed.

Robert Ferris

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