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GWR Route: Hatton to Bearley and Alcester Branch

Great Alne Station: gwrga778

The station now reopened in 1941 to enable workers from Coventry to get to the Maudslay Motors shadow factory

Just after the start of WW2, on 25th September 1939 the Alcester Branch closed for a second time. It reopened again in 1941 to enable workers from Coventry to get to the Maudslay Motors shadow factory, which had been relocated to Great Alne after its Coventry premise had been damaged by bombing. In this early wartime photograph taken from the level crossing the wartime blackout precautions can be seen; whitewashed platform edges and partially blacked out oil lamps.

Robert Ferris

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