GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Station: gwrt294

An Edwardian view of Tyseley station looking towards Leamington with the main platform on the left and relief platforms on the right. The other two-island platformed stations further down the line to Leamington built in 1933 were modelled on Tyseley station's layout. Correspondent David Morgan says "it was constructed as a new station in 1906, the same time as the quadrupling work was being carried out. It was built as the junction station for the North Warwickshire Railway which was under construction at the time". The North Warwickshire Railway obviously increased traffic from this point in to Birmingham with traffic from the South West as well as local services to and from Stratford upon Avon. To reduce the amount of traffic in to Snow Hill which was forever restricted by the tunnel between Moor Street a new terminus station was provided for local passenger services at Moor Street itself. Between Tyseley and Moor Street the lines were therefore quadrupled in 1906 with local services to and from Moor Street using the right-hand island platforms and through services to Snow Hill using the left hand island platforms.

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