It's amazing how construction keeps raising the ground level all the time - happens everywhere!
Thats the base of the turntable and the bottom of the sunken inspection pits.I wonder if that's the top of the turntable pit etc of the foundations.
Very interesting. Does anyone know when it would have been filled in? Did it last until the end of steam or was it much earlier than that?
It was there in around 1846, but gone by 1887. The Maps from 1887 show that area to be full of tracks into what was then the goods station.Very interesting. Does anyone know when it would have been filled in? Did it last until the end of steam or was it much earlier than that?
Opened in 1837: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/curzonstreet_shed.htm
Demolished before the first 25-inch OS maps were surveryed in 1887: https://maps.nls.uk/view/115633308
I've overlaid an old track plan onto a modern satellite image, so you can see exactly where it used to stand:
It was there in around 1846, but gone by 1887. The Maps from 1887 show that area to be full of tracks into what was then the goods station.
(Map courtesy of NLS)
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It was there in around 1846, but gone by 1887. The Maps from 1887 show that area to be full of tracks into what was then the goods station.
(Map courtesy of NLS)
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Opened in 1837: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/curzonstreet_shed.htm
Demolished before the first 25-inch OS maps were surveryed in 1887: https://maps.nls.uk/view/115633308
I've overlaid an old track plan onto a modern satellite image, so you can see exactly where it used to stand:
gone by 1887 - presumably the turntable was too small for the incoming generation of locos, there wouldn't be room to replace it with something larger so the whole building had to go
I watched a YouTube video yesterday uploaded by nodrog of a site visit he made recently. Sorry I don't know how to post a link