Birmingham New Street - Southern Approaches: lnwrbns_str3085

View looking north towards Saltley with Brickyard Crossing Signal Box seen on the right on 10th July 1955. The canal passing from bottom left to mid-right was the Birmingham and Warwick Junction canal. The MR line from Camp Hill can be seen passing beneath the former L&BR line on its way to Derby with St Andrews junction being behind the photographer. The level crossing served a number of brickworks present in the late nineteenth/early part of the twentieth century, including Garrison Farm Brick Works and Britannia Brick Works. The sign just visible on the factory beyond the London to New Street line has the legend, 'GEC Domestic Electric'.

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