The elevated coal stage at Fisherton Sarum like the shed, as discussed in my post a view from the line #2 below opened in 1901. Just like the Shed itself, the coal stages were also built in a house style and as such as well as Salisbury similar stages existed at Eastleigh, Basingstoke and Plymouth Friary. Construction was wooden lapboard panels within a steel frame and a slate roof. Loco coal for Salisbury was supplied from the South Wales coal fields by the Southern Railway loco coal contractors Stephenson Clarke, their wagons were manually unloaded within the stage into wheeled tubs that could then be tipped into the coal space of the waiting engines....

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