Hockley Goods Sheds.

[Pedrocut]

“A view of the goods shed at Hockley taken in 1911, during the years of GWR expansion and development in the Birmingham area. This official view, from the pre-container era, looks chaotic to modern eyes. There are some GW long wheelbase ventilation vans and low sided wagons of the Midland Railway. The tarpaulin sheets would probably have been produced at the Great Western's biggest sheet shed, at Worcester Shrub Hill.”
(National Railway Museum)

(Main line to Metro: train and tram on the Great Western route: Birmingham, Snow Hill - Wolverhampton by Boynton,)

 

[Astoness]

would need to check the list but i think our heritage week has a tour or something like that for hockley goods shed area

lyn

 

[Richard Dye]

“A view of the goods shed at Hockley taken in 1911, during the years of GWR expansion and development in the Birmingham area. This official view, from the pre-container era, looks chaotic to modern eyes. There are some GW long wheelbase ventilation vans and low sided wagons of the Midland Railway. The tarpaulin sheets would probably have been produced at the Great Western's biggest sheet shed, at Worcester Shrub Hill.”
(National Railway Museum)

(Main line to Metro: train and tram on the Great Western route: Birmingham, Snow Hill - Wolverhampton by Boynton,)


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Great photo Pedro, yes chaotic was my first impression.

 

[Heartland]

There were two sheds and also a canal interchange basin, and reconstruction of the site happened in the 1930's by the GWR