LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Forge Mills Station: mrforg1870

Looking towards Whitacre Station with the up platform on the left and the down platform on the right in March 1956. Beyond the short station are the station's sidings with the signal box in the distance. This Signal Box had probably been erected by the LMS as the 1924 Ordnance Survey map shows a signal box to be on the left adjacent to the level crossing. On each platform is an LMS 'Hawkseye' style 'running-in' board, the correct terminology to describe a station's nameboard. Attached to the side wall of the station building on the right are two sets of three fire buckets whilst the lampposts, two on each platform plus one either side of the level crossing, appear to be oil lit.

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