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    Saltley railway station was a railway station in Saltley, Birmingham, England, opened by the Midland Railway in 1854 and rebuilt in 1899. Consisting of...
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  • Duddeston Station on the cross city line. Bus routes into the area include the 8A/8C, 14, 55 and 94. Saltley was served by Saltley railway station between...
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    station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England, and a central hub of the British railway system...
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    between Birmingham New Street and Water Orton, and was near Saltley station until the station closed in 1968. The depot code was SY. The steam loco shed...
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  • Thumbnail for Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd
    transferred to Saltley in Birmingham when it merged with Ashbury, Brown and Marshalls. This was absorbed into the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage...
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    Droitwich Spa railway station serves the town of Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. It is located just to the south-west of Droitwich Spa Junction...
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  • Thumbnail for Birmingham station group
    The Birmingham station group is a station group of three railway stations in Birmingham city centre, consisting of New Street, Moor Street, and Snow Hill...
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    from 1841 until 1902 when it moved to Saltley in Birmingham, merging with the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company. Examples of its...
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  • Thumbnail for Hatton railway station (England)
    Hatton railway station takes the name of the village of Hatton in Warwickshire, England, although it is about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the village. It is...
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  • Birmingham New Street station, by now opened as the main central station for the Midland Railway, were detached or attached at Saltley and Camp Hill. On 3...
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  • Thumbnail for Rugeley Town railway station
    Rugeley Town railway station serves the market town of Rugeley, Staffordshire, England. The station is operated by West Midlands Railway, with services...
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  • Thumbnail for Banbury railway station
    Banbury railway station serves the historic market town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The station is a stop on the Chiltern Main Line; it is operated...
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    worked remotely from the West Midlands Signalling Centre at Saltley. Hartlebury Station Box was an example of the second signal box design from McKenzie...
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  • Thumbnail for Stourbridge Junction railway station
    at the station are now controlled from the West Midlands Signalling Centre in Saltley, Birmingham. Signalling Signals in and around the station are controlled...
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  • station. Although a sub-shed to Saltley by being given the code 21B, in anticipation of the traffic levels, it was a standard scale Midland Railway roundhouse...
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    Signalling Centre at Saltley. The station is situated adjacent to and above the Lichfield Road (A5127), crossed by a bridge as the railway line, part of the...
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    all railway signalling over the British National Rail network. This was subsequently revised to twelve ROCs with responsibilities at two (Saltley and...
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  • Thumbnail for Blakedown railway station
    Blakedown railway station serves the English village of Blakedown, Worcestershire. It was opened as Churchill in 1852, later becoming known for a time...
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  • Thumbnail for Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
    Railway (B&DJR) was a British railway company. From Birmingham it connected at Derby with the North Midland Railway and the Midland Counties Railway at...
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  • Thumbnail for Edmondson railway ticket
    a station master on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in England. He introduced his system on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. Previously, railway companies...
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    also operates at the site. The Hams Hall Estate and what is modern day Saltley was owned by the Adderley family for over 262 years. The name of the estate...
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    LMS Stanier Class 8F (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
    Water Orton 48101 48730 at Lostock Hall MPD in 1968 48538 sat outside Saltley Shed during the running down of steam in 1967 48324 sat at Birds scrapyard...
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    Birmingham–Peterborough line (category Railway lines in the East of England)
    cross-country railway line in the England, linking Birmingham, Leicester and Peterborough, via Nuneaton, Oakham and Stamford Since the Beeching Axe railway closures...
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  • list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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  • railway line in West Yorkshire, England. It runs from Keighley to Oxenhope. It connects to the national rail network line at Keighley railway station...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Orgreave
    proved successful at the Battle of Saltley Gate in Saltley, Birmingham, during the 1972 miners' strike. At Saltley Coke Works, 30,000 pickets and supporters...
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    used by both power stations for the transport of coal from the main line railway at Saltley and within the plant. The power stations closed in 1982, but...
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    Cross Country Route (category Railway lines in the East Midlands)
    The Cross Country Route is a long-distance railway route in England, which runs from Bristol Temple Meads to York via Birmingham New Street, Derby, Sheffield...
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    British Rail Class 45 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1960)
    collided with a goods train which was crossing the line at Stanton Gate railway station under clear signals. The front end of D94 was almost totally destroyed...
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    Chiltern Main Line (category Railway lines in London)
    controlled from the new West Midlands ICC at Saltley (taking over the old signalling centre at Saltley) with new 4-aspect LED signals throughout. However...
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