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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Kingsbury Branch Sidings: mrk1118
View of Kingsbury Branch Sidings Signal Box seen on 9th
August 1969 shortly before its closure. The sidings were opened on 28th
February 1878 to serve both Baddesley and Birch Coppice Collieries and at a
later date, Cohen's scrapyard too. It is interesting to note the position of
this MR branch in relation to the same company's branch from
Stockingford (on the
Nuneaton - Birmingham line) to Ansley Hall
Colliery. With the termini being less than two miles apart and at similarly
high levels, it was no doubt the intention to link the two and form a through
route. The fact that the Ansley Hall branch terminates in the middle of a field
with a trailing connection into the colliery yard - the colliery itself having
been passed about half a mile back - lends weight to this supposition.
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