Disused Railway Stations in Worcestershire - Blackwell Railway Station, Malvern Wells Railway Station, Upton-On-Severn Railway Station (Paperback)

Chapters: Blackwell Railway Station, Malvern Wells Railway Station, Upton-On-Severn Railway Station, Ashton-Under-Hill Railway Station, Malvern Hanley Road Railway Station, Ripple Railway Station, Bengeworth Railway Station, Hinton Railway Station, Eckington Railway Station, Beckford Railway Station, Littleton and Badsey Railway Station, Foley Park Halt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Blackwell railway station was a railway station serving Blackwell in the English county of Worcestershire. It was opened by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1841 a year after the line opened. In 1846 it became part of the Midland Railway which had been formed two years before. It was situated at the top of the steepest part of the Lickey Incline and, slightly to the north was the sidings where the banking engines would drop back from their trains and reverse ready to return to Bromsgrove. In addition trains travelling southwards or down would be brought to a stand at the head of the incline for a brake test including, until 1941, passenger trains. In the days before through braking of goods trains, wagon brakes would have to be pinned down. Even later, when vacuum braking had been introduced, most trains would only be partly fitted and, often, a banking engine would have to lead the train to provide extra braking There were two platforms, that on the down (southward) line being exceedingly long - much longer than that on the up side. Access to it was by a barrow crossing to the south, there being no footbridge. There were short goods sidings for each line running into bay platforms with an extra one on the up side. The entrance and booking hall was on the up platform, with a small waiting room on the other side. Construction was of typical Midland Railw...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2156225