GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford Upon Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa505

Looking north from Alcester Road bridge towards Birmingham prior to the doubling of the line and the opening of the North Warwickshire Railway. In this view the station is mid-way through being changed from having two through platforms to three through platforms with the left hand platform being turned into an island platform. Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith in their book Stratford Upon Avon to Cheltenham state that prior to this work being undertaken there was a bay platform at the far end of the up platform on the left. The up platform on the left shows the original 1862 building still in place although beyond the footbridge its replacement, to be used when the platform was converted to an island configuration, has been erected. On the opposite and down platform work has been carried out to modernise the station building the most obvious being a new roof and canopy. Vic Mitchells and Keith Smiths also state in their book Stratford Upon Avon to Cheltenham that the station once had an overall roof which stretched across the two tracks before being demolished sometime about at the turn of the century.

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