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GWR Route: Alcester to Hatton Junction
Claverdon Station: gwrc915
Looking down from the road bridge towards Hatton during the
doubling and construction work on 10th November 1938. The branch and old
station remained open for passengers. At the far end of the platform can be
seen the new signal box under construction. In the goods loop adjacent to the
raised wharf are a 5 plank open wagon and a brake van (telegraphic name TOAD).
Almost 400 of these outside framed wooden bodied brake vans with iron under
frames were constructed between 188287. Most had a 10ton rating
originally, but towards the end of the First World War many were reconstructed
as either 12ton brake vans (diagram AA16) or as tool vans for the Signal
Department.
Robert Ferris
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