page_title: Saltley railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Saltley railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Up freight approaching Saltley station. View southward from Saltley Road (now Viaduct), towards Birmingham New Street and the South: ex-Midland Derby/Leicester etc. - Birmingham - Bristol main line. This was an immensely busy stretch of railway. Saltley station (closed 4/3/68) was behind the camera and a little further north were the great Washwood Heath Yards; ahead was Saltley Junction and Lawley Street Goods station, then Duddeston Road Junction, where the Camp Hill line from Kings Norton joined - used by all freight traffic from the South and from the GWR, avoiding New Street station. This Class D freight is headed by Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44814 (built 1944, withdrawn 9/67). Not visible over to the right was the River Rea, worming its way between all the industry.
context_page_description: Saltley railway station was a railway station in Saltley, Birmingham, England, opened by the Midland Railway in 1854 and rebuilt in 1899.
  Consisting of an island platform, it was on the line into Birmingham New Street from Water Orton. It closed to all traffic in 1968.
context_section_description: Saltley railway station was a railway station in Saltley, Birmingham, England, opened by the Midland Railway in 1854 and rebuilt in 1899.
  Consisting of an island platform, it was on the line into Birmingham New Street from Water Orton. It closed to all traffic in 1968.
caption: Up freight approaching Saltley in 1962
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "EPSON scanner image", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "78", "Image YResolution": "78", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2011:11:29 18:23:33", "Image ExifOffset": "204", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "342", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5856", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1180", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "721"}