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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

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View of the water crane located at the London end of Leamington station's up platform in July 1966

View of the water crane located at the London end of Leamington station's up platform in July 1966. The decline of both passenger and goods traffic from the late 1950s forced British Railways to rationalise their network and goods facilities. As can be seen in the above photograph, the volume of traffic had by the mid-1960s declined significantly on the former GWR London to Birmingham route resulting in the goods loop being taken out of service.

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