GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Danzey for Tanworth Station: gwrdt2830

Close-up of the recently completed three arched skew masonry bridge over the driveway to Umberslade Hall in 1906. The contractor C J Willis & Sons has constructed a temporary standard gauge track to deliver the required building materials to the base of the bridge and there are three empty Great Western Railway wagons visible. Between the two unidentified four plank open wagons is two plank wagon No 15881, which was built in the 1870’s as one of the 100 wagons on lot 52. The Great Western Railway built almost 5,000 two plank wagons during that decade. Note this wagon has painted ‘G’ and ‘W’ in large white letters, a feature that was introduced in 1904, while the two four plank wagons are likely to have been built around the turn of the century and have retained their original cast iron ownership plates fixed to the wooden body. See images 'gwrdt1420', 'gwrdt2823' and 'gwrdt2831' for more photographs of this unusual bridge.

Robert Ferris

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