Stechford Train Station

[mw0njm.]

Close up showing the signal on the bridge

The lean-to building was built after the erection of the road bridge and consisted of two rooms, an office on the right and a store on the left. Note too the stove pipe chimney which is being taken up level with the roof of the Booking Office

 

[Mark Tooze]

the station's down platform and the array of gas lanterns and lamp posts used to light the station.
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George E Lewis

Aerial view of same platform today - right hand platform edge has gone - on the old photo you can see the old station building on the bridge. I think the term to describe todays station is "minimalist".........

 

[Mark Tooze]

Close up showing the signal on the bridge

The lean-to building was built after the erection of the road bridge and consisted of two rooms, an office on the right and a store on the left. Note too the stove pipe chimney which is being taken up level with the roof of the Booking Office

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The part of the road bridge in the old photo has since been rebuilt. This is all that remains of the area on the right hand side of the old photo I think:-

 

[Heartland]

I would like to recognize the first phase at Stechford.
The original county road to Yardley passed along a similar route as this modern access road. That road crossed the London & Birmingham Railway on the level and then climbed up a hill. There was a London & Birmingham Railway crossing keepers house that was there about the time the line was opened (1838), the station came a few years later as staggered platforms either end of the crossing. The up line was east of the crossing and the down platform was west of the crossing. The making of the railway to Aston led to the reconstruction work of station No 2 being made on the west side of the former crossing. That crossing was replaced with a road overbridge to the east. The goods yard was later extended.

The ground on the Victoria Road side was made up to the new level. There remained a small dip by what became the 3rd Station entrance. Which flooded from time to time until remedial work done this year.

This view shows the route of the original road. The crossing keepers cottage foundations probably exist near this point and up to the platform.

The London & Birmingham Railway numbered their buildings and it would be of interest to see if any record exists of that system.