LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street

Washwood Heath Sidings: mrwhg633

View of Washwood Heath Sidings No 4 Signal Box which controlled the shunting neck and the twenty-three sidings of the Back Fan or Coal Bank. In front of the photographer are some of the four roads of the 'Old Coal Bank Sidings'. Bob Essery writes in Midland Journal No 26, 'this was not a block post; it was opened on 24th August 1923 when the down gravitational sidings came into use, and made a shunting frame on 24th August 1969 before being taken out of use on 18th November 1973. 31st October 1971

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