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Moor Street Station Hoists

terryb18

terryb18

Gone but not forgotten R.I.P.
Replacement image (Phyllis Nicklin, 1959) may vary from original.
image.jpeg Is that a crane in the background? If it is I did'nt realise that they had cranes like that then.

Terry
 
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Nice photos topsy (photo missing- if you have replacement please let moderator know thanks)
What are the huts on towers in the background for?
 
The huts definately look as if they are at Moor Street Station but they look too high and too close together to be signal boxes. I would date the photo as sometime in the late 1950s looking at the buses in the photo. I am wondering if they could be contruction offices for the 1960s Bull Ring.
 
David
Would they be the superstructure of the hoists to raise wagons from the lower to higher levels of the station?
 
Have found photo of them , which confirms, from Warwickshire Railways site at https://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrms1210.htm

waggon_hoist_moor_st.jpg
 
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