LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Nuneaton Abbey Street Station: mrna1095a

Close up of image 'mrna1095' showing Abbey Street's main passenger building located on the Birmingham platform. At the base of the walls and along the rear of the platform are concrete 'U' sections used by the Permanent Way staff to provide cable ducting along the track. This was to accommodate the cabling associated with the colour aspect signalling being introduced in the late 1960s. In response to my query as to what the structure was, Mick Mears writes, 'the signal type box in the background is in fact an old signal box, that was put on the site for the sole use of the Signal and Telegraph lineman. This was the base for the Telegraph lineman and assistant lineman plus the Mechanical lineman and his assistant, they reported to the S&T inspector at the S&T Department based at Nuneaton's Trent Valley S&T yard which was located by the cattle docks south of the Leicester Road bridge'. Its location is approximately where the 1914 Ordnance Survey shows the locomotive turntable.

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