LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Tile Hill Station: lnwrth712

Looking towards the station in the direction of Birmingham from the goods yard with the British Railways built waiting room on the up platform. Tile Hill's signal box was constructed at a higher elevation than normal and cantilevered outwards over the up track to allow the signalman or 'bobby' a better view of the line past the L&BR station building. On the left is the short head shunt which doubled as the siding where the cattle dock was located. Tile Hill station was my local train spotting haunt and I have fond memories of the time I spent here as young lad. The 'bobby' was very friendly and often allowed us to visit him in the box. One memory in particular registers when I look at this photograph and that was seeing the swarf from local engineering factories being tipped from lorries into steel open wagons that stood in the siding of the old cattle dock.

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