LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Nuneaton Abbey Street Station: mrna49

Looking along the up platform from the Birmingham end of Abbey Street station during the 1930s. In this view the Midland Railway three arm signal gantry can be seen to be located at the Leicester end of the down platform. This was because it was MR practice for their locomotives to be driven with the driver standing on the right. The LMS, which absorbed the MR along with the LNWR and others, adopted the practice of driving their locomotives with the driver standing on the left which is why later views of Abbey Street station show the signal gantry replaced by one located on the up platform.

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