LMS Route: Hampton in Arden to Whitacre

B&DJR Documentation: mrsbr1867d

An 1877 Timetable showing the reduced service of one mixed train between Hampton and Whitacre each day. In this instance the first and return services commences and terminates at from Whitacre. This may infer that the locomotive was no longer stabled at Hampton and was now shedded at Lawley Street, the Midland Railway's shed prior to the opening of Saltley shed. The Hampton shed was certainly no longer in use as an engine shed because as Roger Waring states in the definitive history of the line, it was recorded in 1884 to be let to Wyckham Blackwell, a local timber, coal and corn merchant who used the premises as a saw mill.

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