Not an advisable manoeuvre to try at today’s stations. Is/was the left platform lower than the right ? I don’t remember that. No date for this one, possibly 1910/20 ? Viv.
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Erdington Station
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Radiorails
master brummie
Unlikely to be a different height I think Vivienne, just the angle of the photo maybe. Staff often crossed the tracks but to day would need a compulsory hi-vis jacket or tabard. I wonder what was in the baskets? Pigeons maybe? Or rabbits (dead)?
Railway staff crossing the line like this was a common sight. There was even a little step built into the platform wall to help them up.
Radiorails
master brummie
Lots of rabbits used to be shipped by train - food for the hungry masses of the country's cities.
Heartland
master brummie
The railwayman, presumably a porter, was crossing from the Sutton/Lichfield platform to the Birmingham Platform.
One of the Birmingham Side platforms served as booking office in BR days until the electrification when the station buildings were replaced by the present
There was a signalbox at Erdington that has now gone.
One of the Birmingham Side platforms served as booking office in BR days until the electrification when the station buildings were replaced by the present
There was a signalbox at Erdington that has now gone.