GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Henley in Arden - Original Station: gwrha1400b

Close up of image 'gwrha1400' showing the two buffer stops at the end at Henley-in-Arden goods yard's main sidings with the original passenger station in the background. Roger Carpenter & Chris Turner write in Great Western Railway Journal No 11 Summer 1994, that the "goods traffic over the branch was much as might be expected from and to a small market town, with produce forming much of the outbound consignments. The resident coal, coke and lime merchant was TH Truelove, who owned a small fleet of wagons. Truelove also had a depot at Lapworth station, and the firm was still trading in the 1950s. Farm livestock would also have been a common sight on the branch, especially on Henley market day".

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