GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa Station: gwrls2077

An unidentified GWR 4-6-0 Saint Class locomotive stands at the down platform with an express for Snow Hill circa 1920. On the right, standing in the bay platform, is a local passenger train probably destined for Stratford upon Avon. On the left are the lines forming the goods loop which allowed goods trains to stand until there was a path clear for them to move forward to Southam and Harbury where the next set of refuge sidings were available. The passenger footbridge was initially built to cross the GWR lines but was later extended to cross the LNWR branch lines too. The later LNWR extension is clearly visible on the left as the method of construction was very different to that adopted by the GWR.

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