LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Duddeston Road: mrdr1013

Looking north towards Saltley station with the old signal box on the right on Sunday 20th March 1955. Bob Essery writes in Part Two of Pictorial Survey of Railways in the West Midlands 'the sidings at Duddeston to the left were largely used for incoming coal traffic for the gasworks and for loaded coke wagons or empties going out. These would be taken to Washwood Heath up sidings to be marshalled into trains that would be worked to collieries as required. Being a Sunday there are no westbound trains standing either on the down Camp Hill line or the Second down goods line waiting for the 'road' to be given.

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