Miscellaneous

Joseph Wright & Sons: misc_indust356

Map showing the location of the original Saltley station and Messrs Joseph Wright & Sons works in Birmingham. Note the station has the conventional platform layout with platforms being erected on either side of the station. In 1845 Joseph Wright & Sons constructed a Carriage Works on meadowland near the village of Saltley in the parish of Aston. These Carriage Works were situated adjacent to Saltley Viaduct, where this crossed the Birmingham & Warwick Junction Canal and the Midland Railway. This railway was the Whitacre & Birmingham line which had been opened in February 1842 by the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway, prior to becoming part of the Midland Railway in May 1844. The Carriage Works appears to have had a canal wharf as well as a rail connection to the Midland Railway. In 1853 the Carriage Works expanded on land leased to the north and east of the original site and in the following year the Midland Railway constructed a basic station with platforms built on either side of their main line between Saltley Viaduct and the canal.

Robert Ferris

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