LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Salford Priors station: mrsp580

Close up of the station master's house showing the LMS Hawkeye name board on the left. The station name board seems to be in a poor state of repair having had at least one post supported by another sunk into the ground. The board would at best have only been in place for some twenty years, which compared to the Midland Railway board it replaced, was a relatively short period of time. The lampposts seen at the booking office and the entrance to the platform from the access road are lit by oil. One of the jobs of the most junior member of staff would have been to light them and extinguish them each day and fill them with oil after trimming the wicks.

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