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GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour
Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm3068
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View of the original 1853 Moreton-in-Marsh station built by
the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) . Mark Turner
writes in an article in British Railway Journal No 29 Christmas 1989
which accompanied this rare photograph of the station in its timber
incarnation, 'the main station building appears to be a standard OW&WR
structure, similar to the stations which existed at Chipping Camden,
Handborough and Adlestrop until their closure and demolition in 1966. The
island platform building survived rather longer than the main station (sic),
being used as a waiting room up until its replacement in 1965-66 when
considerable modernisation took place at the station'. The building to the
left is Blenheim Farm, one of Morton's principal farms. In front of the farm
house is a small building with a tall chimney thought to be a pump house for
the adjacent water tower, which appears to be constructed in timber which
according to Mark, 'was quite usual for this period.' The water tower
was later replaced by a version built in steel (see image 'gwrmm987') which was thought to have been erected in
the 1880s.
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