LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

Four Oaks Station: lnwrfo53a

Close up of image 'lnwrfo53' showing some of Four Oaks' station master and other staff posed on the up platform circa 1951. The station signs are still the LNWR originals, the LMS never replaced them as they considered this a waste of money, which will be replaced by British Railways' corporate signs circa 1954. British Railways wanted to stamp its corporate identity on the big four and could afford to as it was the taxpayer who paid not shareholders. On the side of the canopy is the terminating block for the telephone and telegraph wires linking the station to the national network.

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