GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour

Shipston-on-Stour Station: gwrss558

View of the station from the goods yard prior to the loading dock being built in 1914 and showing a GWR 0-6-0ST at the head of a one-coach train. The fireman standing on the running plate appears to be holding a hose pipe although it is unlikely he would be topping up the tank. A 'parachute' water column was at one time sited in the yard and even if it was not available the locomotive could have taken on water at Moreton-in-Marsh. The horse drawn carriage posed on the platform was not an unusual site at Shipston as it was recorded that even in the 1930s it was common practice for the replacement goods lorry to reverse on to the platform to deliver or collect small items and parcels.

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