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London North Western
Railway:
 Midland
Railway:
 Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway LMS Route: Birmingham
New Street to Lichfield LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry
Barr-Birmingham
Aston Station: lnwra2310
Looking back towards Aston station and Bescot with Long Acre
overbridge in the distance on 15th April 1961. The route's four roads are from
left to right: down slow, up slow, down fast and up fast whilst to their right
we can see an open wagon standing on the line which formed part of the branch
to Midland Tar Distillers and the rear entrance to Nechells Gas Works. The
bracket signal has two sets of arms spaced much further apart than those seen
adjacent to the shed and controlling the up lines as in image 'lnwra2309a'. Because this section of line has four
tracks compared to two the wider spacing helps the driver to understand that
the signal on the left is for the down slow whereas the signal on the right is
for the down fast.
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