Moor Street Goods Station

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Goods Station - The Sidings and Upper Shed

Ref: gwrms758 NRM View of Moor Street goods yard looking in the direction of Tyseley with the passenger station located on to the left

Ref: gwrms758a Great Western Railway A mixture of Great Western Railway open and van wagons on the siding roads at Moor Street Station in May 1915

Ref: gwrms758b Great Western Railway A closeup of the view down the cartway between the goods sidings adjacent to the topside shed at Moor Street

Ref: gwrms1212 GWR Magazine The 6 ton fixed jib crane mounted on a concrete block and located in the upper level yard at Moor Street station

Ref: gwrms1098 A Muckley Ex-LMS 2MT 2-6-0 No 46457 is seen shunting wagons and parcel vans adjacent to Moor Streets upper goods shed

Ref: gwrms1214 GWR Magazine View of the travelling crane which was designed to travel the 400 feet length of the upper level shed

Ref: gwrms1214a GWR Magazine Close up of the traversing carriage slung under the beam and the jib crane which could lift up to one ton

Ref: gwrms1108 NRM Internal view of the stations' upper Goods Shed handling vegetable traffic with its overhead gantry crane

Ref: gwrms1207 GWR Magazine Internal view of the station's high level shed with its unloading platform and the mileage platform

Ref: gwrms1207a GWR Magazine Close up showing the office used by railway staff to record all the goods arriving at the high level shed

Ref: gwrms1211 GWR Magazine View showing wagons being moved on a traverser whilst in the background is the second wagon hoist to lower shed 'B'

Ref: gwrms1213 GWR Magazine Wagons being moved by using a combination of powered and dumb capstans in conjunction with wire ropes

Ref: gwrms1210 GWR Magazine The Wagon Hoist to shed 'B' and behind the hoist to shed 'A' used to lower wagons to and from the low level sheds

Ref: gwrms1210a GWR Magazine Close up of one of the two wagon hoists provided by the GWR in 1924 to access the lower shed 'B' at Moor Street

Ref: gwrms1720 Great Western Railway An official posed photograph showing a ten ton, wooden Mink A covered wagon on the twenty ton electric wagon hoist

Ref: gwrms1720a Great Western Railway Close up showing staff operating one of the three 20 ton electrically powered wagon hoists located at Moor Street

Ref: gwrms1723 CC Green Mr A Facey, the Shunter, at the controls of the electrically powered 30 ton wagon hoist above Shed B warehouse

Ref: gwrms2756 A Ross Henry Pooley & Son's mobile workshop for maintaining, servicing and calibrating of all GWR weighbridges

Ref: gwrms2758 CC Green Ex-Great Western Railway 2-6-2T with a parcels train of long wheelbase covered wagons in platform 3

Ref: gwrms2745 Great Western Railway A view of the Chief Clerk's Office in the Good's Office, whose windows looked out on to Moor Street

Ref: gwrms2739 Great Western Railway Internal view of the General Goods Office located on the first floor of Moor Street Good’s Office

Ref: gwrms1742 GWR Magazine A road accident in Birmingham was reported in the May 1913 Great Western Railway Magazine

Ref: gwrms1876 Great Western Railway An unused wagon label, pre-stamped for perishable goods from St Erth, Cornwall to Moor Street goods depot

Ref: gwrms1696 GWR Notice A copy of the Great Western Railway's regulations governing the use of power capstans in goods depots

Ref: gwrms2723 V Michel The morning of 10th April 1941 showing the destruction of the annex adjacent to the Moor Street

Ref: gwrms2737 C Jacks A colour view from the cab of 350hp diesel shunter of the wagon hoists seen in British Railways Western Region days

Ref: gwrms3882 R Ferris Letters from Roger T Smith authorising construction of the specialist Jib Cranes for use in Moor Street Goods Depot

Ref: gwrms3883 R Ferris Two letters from Roger T Smith authorising Stothert & Pitt Ltd to build the Jib Cranes and Capstans

Moor Street Goods Station's Banana Traffic

Ref: gwrms2742 CC Green Shunter A Facey brings out of Moor Street's Shed 'B' one of the empty banana vans to the surface

Ref: gwrms1722 CC Green The Shunter draws out the Banana Van out of the wagon hoist above Shed B using a rope and capstan

Ref: gwrms2734 CC Green The covered wagon is lowered by the electrically powered hoist into Moor Street's underground shed

Ref: gwrms1725 CC Green A British Railways' covered van in Shed B, beside the banana ripening rooms belonging to Francis Nicholls Ltd

Ref: gwrms2732 CC Green In Moor Street's lower level shed 'B', a covered wagon is drawn by capstan on to the hoist

Ref: gwrms2733 CC Green Shunter A Facey guides the van off the hoist in lower level shed 'B' and on to the traverser

Ref: gwrms2736 CC Green With wrappers and stems removed, the last load of the bananas are being hung on the overhead conveyor

Ref: gwrms2741 CC Green A bag of green bananas is being stripped of its protective wrapping after arriving at the Ripening Rooms

Ref: gwrms1729 GWR Magazine Diagram of an insulated Van for the conveyance of Banana Traffic built by the Great Western Railway

Moor Street Goods Station - The low level sheds

Ref: gwrms1702 Great Western Railway View beneath Moor Street Station and Goods depot showing there were two sheds at road level

Ref: gwrms1209 GWR Magazine Internal view of lower level shed 'B' and its two unloading platforms and one of the two fixed cranes on the left

Ref: gwrms1208 GWR Magazine An internal view shed 'A' still under construction showing the unloading platform on the left, the roadway in the centre

Ref: gwrms1726 CC Green Photograph of the Shed B warehouse taken on 28th April 1970, with a ventilated wooden covered van

Ref: gwrms1724 CC Green Under the ferroconcrete roof was the fruit wharf of shed B warehouse, where crates of produce were unloaded

Ref: gwrms1215 GWR Magazine One of the Messrs Stothert & Pitt one ton fixed cranes sited in lower level shed 'B' for lifting goods from rail to road

Ref: gwrms1219 GWR Magazine Shed 'A's Babcock & Wilcox walking crane which with its 30 foot jib could travel around the 'U' shaped platform

Ref: gwrms1217 GWR Magazine View of the lower sheds' 30 ton traverser for transferred wagons from the lift to the sidings or vice-a-versa

Ref: gwrms1220 GWR Magazine SH Heywood & Company's traverser which was located in lower shed 'A' at the Park Street end of the shed

Ref: gwrms1218 GWR Magazine A covered wagon being moved by the 30 ton traverser whilst a van is seen standing in the cage of one of the two hoists

Ref: gwrms1216 GWR Magazine One of Messrs S H Heywood wagon hoists provided by for raising and lowering wagons to the lower sheds

Ref: gwrms1221 GWR Magazine One of the switchgear units built by BTH and located adjacent to each hoist in the lower level sheds

Ref: gwrms1106 NRM Another view the station's subterranean goods shed and wooden staging between columns

Ref: gwrms1105 NRM Potatoes being loaded directly from the open 7 plank wagon on to Daimler lorries at Moor Streets lower goods shed

Ref: gwrms1107 NRM View of the potatoes being unloaded from an LMS open wagon on to timber staging for transhipment by lorry

Ref: gwrms1712 Great Western Railway Under the arches of Shed B were two platforms each with a rail face and both had a one-ton electric crane

Ref: gwrms1700 Great Western Railway View of Shed B below Moor Street Station providing covered storage and distribution facilities

Ref: gwrms2740 CC Green A shock absorber covered wagon being moved on the four rail, thirty ton traverser in low level shed B

Ref: gwrms2740a CC Green Close up of the covered wagon No B851720 being moved on Moor Street Goods Shed's traverser

Ref: gwrms2735 CC Green Moor Street's low level shed B where a line of covered wagons are seen waiting to be unloaded

Plans and schematic drawings of Moor Street Goods Station

Ref: gwrms2722 Birmingham Library An October 1895 Fire Insurance map showing the Birmingham City end of the Bordesley Viaduct

Ref: gwrms2766 R Ferris Fire Insurance Map showing the layout of the different levels of Moor Street Station and the surrounding areas

Ref: gwrms1205 R Ferris Site plan showing the two lower sheds in relation to the main line to Snow Hill and Park Street and Allison Street

Ref: moor_st_map GWR Magazine Map of Moor Street station surveyed during building work in 1914 before the station's layout was completed

Ref: gwrms1204 GWR Magazine Cross sectional view of the passenger station and the upper goods yard plus the two lower sheds