GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford Upon Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa507

View of Stratford on Avon station from Alcester bridge showing two sets of tracks alongside Platform 3 and an up local passenger service to Birmingham. The second set of tracks was authorised in February 1942 and described as the Cold Store up loop and serviced the Ministry of Food's Cold Store which was built on the land to the left of the station now occupied by Morrison's Supermarket. The points which gave access to the Cold Store loop from the bay were fitted with a lock retaining bar which prevented the signalman at Stratford on Avon West Box, who could not see the points, from inadvertently operating them while a train or vehicle was standing on them. The state of the station, with its extremely grimy and sooty appearance and when compared to image 'gwrsa615' taken in 1950, would seem to indicate that the photograph was taken in the immediate post-war period before nationalisation.

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